Thursday, 15 May 2008

George

"In the image supplied by Zwinglio Dias and Joyce Hill, the three streams [ Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal] merge into a “rich Christian brew that shapes religious life in Brazil.”1 (104)

Brazil, according to British sociologist David Martin, “is simultaneously the world’s largest Catholic country, the scene of the largest spiritist movements—and the home of maybe half the evangelical [Protestant] believers in Latin America.”2

1SK George, 'Brazil: An "Evangelized" Giant Calling for Liberating Evangelism' International Bulletin of Missionary Research 26:3 (2002) 104109, 104.

2SK George, 'Brazil: An "Evangelized" Giant Calling for Liberating Evangelism' International Bulletin of Missionary Research 26:3 (2002) 104109, 104.

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