Bastian 3

argues that Latin American Protestantism emerged from within "liberal radical minorities " and only later "were rebaptized for the most part...following negotiations between missionaries and dissident religious liberals."¹(37)

Protestants shared "nineteenth century passions for organization within civil society, as witnessed by the emrgence of other similarly local associations that adopted the trappings of foreign associative systems." ²(38)

Protestants--->mediators of individualism--> inculcated democratic practices³ (38)

"Members of Latin American Protestant Congregations could be found siding with the democratic forces at the heart of the republican and anti-slavery struggles in Brazil...the identity of the Protestant movement was forged as an agent of a reform that was religious as well as intellectual and moral, a precondition for democratic modernity."⁴ (38)

Traditional Protestantism: origin in radical liberal minorities, questioned corporativism ⁵

1JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 37.

2JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 38.

3JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 38.

4JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 38.

5JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 39.