Bastian 4

Contemporary Protestantism: origin in popular Catholicism and shamanistic religions; re-inforced corporativism¹ (39)

1960s "Protestant movements adopting the attitudes and values of popular religion as a result of the Pentecostal revolution." ²(43)

participation in a "patchwork religious culture" ³(45)

"Today the majority of Pentecostal churches have leaders who are the chiefs, owners, caciquies and caudillos of a religious movement that they themselves have created and transmitted from father to son according to a patrimonial or nepotistic model." ⁴(48)

Acculturation affecting historical forms of Protestantism which become Pentecostalized and adopt corporatist political culture ⁵(49)

"The Pentecostal leadership has been able to establish itself in certain Latin American countries as a political clientèle of the authoritarian regime"⁶ (50)

points to studies whereby Brazilian Pentecostals are encourage to vote for government candidates in return for potential privileges ⁷(

1JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 39.

2JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 43.

3JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 45.

4JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 48.

5JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 49.

6JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 50.

7JP Bastian, “The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical
Perspective,” Latin American Research Review 28:2(1993): 33-61, 50–51.