Gaskill

complains that cultural explanations of Protestant politics have ignored other structural reasons¹ (70)

criticises Burdick for focusing on the AoG² (71-72)

Latin American Protestants "traditional authoritarian practices and discourses are frequently reproduced simultaneously with individual expression as leaders and congregants attempt to re-interpret and give meaning to their life experience."³ (75)

lack of internal democratic practices inside Latin American Protestant churches unlikely to lead to external democratic practices⁴ (76)

claims a lack of Protestant ethic in Latin America; neo-pentecostal focus on consumerism⁵ (77-78)

Latin American Protestantism do not view work or capital accumulation as a sign of election⁶ (78)

Pentecostalism as a means for coping with poverty⁷ (78-79)

Reed Nelson: typology of Protestant organizations. (1) Bureaucratic: historical protestantism; highly rational, alien to Brazil not able to respond dynamically (2) traditional Pentecostals, focus on doctrine and practice (3) clientilist; (neo) Pentecostals fluid, need converts, religius entrepeneurs, take clientilism into politics⁸ (80-81)

Freston "importance attached by Protestant elites to ensuring that the symbols of the Kingdom be interposed over the politics of the world" --> e.g. concern with open Bibles⁹ (83)

"there is no invariant relationship Protestantism and authoritarianism or democracy."¹⁰ (85)

"when individual use of religion to make sense of a political economy undergoing rapid individualization, religions that explain outcomes in terms of individual effort are likely to be seen more common-sensical."¹¹ (85)

1NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 70.

2NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 71–72.

3NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 75.

4NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 76.

5NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 77–78.

6NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 78.

7NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 78–79.

8NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 80–81.

9NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 83.

10NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 85.

11NJ Gaskill, “Rethinking Protestantism and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America,” Sociology of Religon 58:1 (1997) 69-91, 85.