Berger foreword

"two truly global movements of enormous vitality. One is conservative Islam, the other conservative Protestantism." ¹(vii)

links evangelical growth as a movement with East and SE Asia; South Pacific; sub Suharan Africa² (vii)

"The first internationale of world-transforming Protestantism...was predominantly Anglo-Saxon in provenance; we are now in the midst of a second Protestant internationale, which is moving freely across language boundaries."³ (viii)

"The social and moral consequences of conversion to Protestantism continue to be remarkably similar to the consequences of the Puritan and Methodist revolutions...remarkably helpful to people in the throes of modernization and of the 'take off' stage of modern economic growth....affinities with the 'spirit of Catholicism', with individualism, with a hunger for education and...with a favorable disposition toward democratic policies."⁴

1P Berger, “Foreword,” in D Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) vii-x, vii.

2P Berger, “Foreword,” in D Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) vii-x, vii.

3P Berger, “Foreword,” in D Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) vii-x, viii.

4P Berger, “Foreword,” in D Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) vii-x, ix.