Bergunder 1

stygmatizing sterortypes of Pentecostals in Latin America:

(1) accomplices of the Religious right in the USA

(2) seductive of the poor

(3) uninterested in social change

(4) without theology

often those setting up the stereotype then present the CEBs as the polar opposites¹

1 M Bergunder, ' The Pentecostal Movement and Basic Ecclesial Communities in Latin America: Sociological Theories and Theological Debates', International Review of Mission 91:361 (2002), 163‫–186, 163.