Chesnut ctd

movement from a religious monopoly to a competitive religious economy.¹ (21)

stagnation of CEBs and mainline protestantism is "because they lack competitive products of mass appeal and are not skilled marketers." ²(22)

"rates of participation in religious activities are greater in unregulated spiritual economies than in monopolistic ones."³ (22)

"Popular religious groups that do not put faith healing, for example, at the centre of their praxis, will have no mass appeal in Latin America."⁴

1RA Chesnut, 'Pragmatic Consumers and Practical Products: The Success of Pneumacentric Religion among Women in Latin America's New Religious Economy' Review of Religious Research 45:1 (2003), 20–31, 21.

2RA Chesnut, 'Pragmatic Consumers and Practical Products: The Success of Pneumacentric Religion among Women in Latin America's New Religious Economy' Review of Religious Research 45:1 (2003), 20–31, 22.

3RA Chesnut, 'Pragmatic Consumers and Practical Products: The Success of Pneumacentric Religion among Women in Latin America's New Religious Economy' Review of Religious Research 45:1 (2003), 20–31, 22.

4RA Chesnut, 'Pragmatic Consumers and Practical Products: The Success of Pneumacentric Religion among Women in Latin America's New Religious Economy' Review of Religious Research 45:1 (2003), 20–31, 23.