P Freston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Freston |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Freston |
| SIGNATURE | FRESTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1523-581X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The recent rise of Christian Zionism in Brazil: Church Life and Politics
Christian Zionisms in historical depth and geographical breadth: A Typology
Researching global Christian Zionism: A Historian’s Suggestions
The expansion of Christian Zionism in the Global South
An Interview with Paul Freston
Religião e Política no Brasil Contemporâneo: Uma Apresentação
Apresentação ao Dossiê da Revista ANTHROPOLÓGICAS, Ano 25, 32(2), 2021
Trump y la derecha religiosa: Estados Unidos, Brasil, Perú y Guatemala
Esse dossiê surgiu da preocupação com a conjuntura política e religiosa contemporânea marcada pelo recrudescimento internacional da direita e da extrema-direita em várias democracias ocidentais. Em recentes eleições europeias vêm se destacando políticos e partidos à direita, como na Itália, Holanda, Hungria, Polônia e Turquia. Mesmo não tendo sido eleita em alguns países, a extrema-direita obteve um bom desempenho nas urnas, como na França, onde …
Charismatic Movement
Movements called “charismatic” within Protestant and Catholic Christianity include renewal movements within established denominations, and independent churches and networks; all stress the availability of “charismata” or “gifts of the Holy Spirit.” The number of charismatics is estimated at 15 percent of the world's Christian population. The movement is related phenomenologically to Pentecostalism, but with some differences in theology and especi…
Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil - by Osterbaan, Martijn
A religião e as eleições municipais brasileiras de 2016: A Verdadeira Novidade
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Pentecostal power: Expressions, impact and faith of Latin American Pentecostalism
This book is the first regional volume in Brill's Global pentecostal and charismatic studies series. It talks of the history and diversity of Pentecostalism in the region (Part One); theoretical ap
Pentecostals and Politics in Latin America
This chapter describes the contours of Pentecostalism in Latin America today, and then investigates its social impact and its political involvement, especially regarding its effect on democratic strengthening. Using recent survey data on global Pentecostalism gathered by the Pew Research Center in 2006 (Spirit and Power, 2006), the social and political impacts of Latin American Pentecostalism are compared to two other major religio-political acto…
Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories and Methods
Researching the Heartland of Pentecostalism: Latin Americans at Home and Abroad
Latin America is undergoing a singular process of Christian pluralization from within and from the bottom up. It is thus a unique site for globalizing the US–European debate on religion and modernity. Pentecostalism has been the engine of religious change in Latin America, introducing a new model of the religious field. This article examines the relationship between the simultaneous growth of Pentecostalism and “no religion.” Latin America is als…
Duas Transições Futuras: Católicos, protestantes e sociedade na América Latina
Como resultado cumulativo das mudanças no quadro religioso da América Latina nas últimas décadas, o artigo prevê a aproximação de duas grandes transições, uma católica e a outra protestante, nas quais as relações entre religião, estado e sociedade serão amplamente modificadas. A transição católica (que talvez não ocorra em todos os países da região) se refere ao tipping point em que os antigos papéis sócio-políticos se tornam insustentáveis. O pl…
Globalization, Southern Christianity, and Proselytism
Christianity no longer flows unilaterally, from “Christendom” to “heathendom”; instead, its flows are increasingly complex. Understanding Islam and Christianity in the global context helps us assess the likely effects, whether negative or positive, of the current wave of missionaries from the Global South. In general the rising tide of these missionaries is not a catalyst for global religious conflagration, as some analysts might think. Like the …
Religion and Politics in the International System Today
As an expert on Chinese political culture, author of a book on Catholicism in global politics, and erstwhile Jesuit, Eric Hanson has written a book on religion and politics in the international system which will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners. Full of examples and even juicy details, this is a work over which the Iraq dêbacle casts a shadow and provides ample justification for more such studies. But Hanson's purpose is larger:…
The Many Faces of Evangelical Politics in Latin America
This chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about evangelical politics in Latin America. This book examines the interplay between contemporary religion and democracy at one of its key points, which is the relationship between the fast-growing grassroots Protestantism of the global South and the fragile democracies of one of its key regions, Latin America. It attempts to establish the connection between evangelical Protestantism and …
Charismatic Movement
Movements usually referred to as $@#*^%#@#ldquo;charismatic$@#*^%#@#rdquor; developed within Protestant and Catholic Christianity from the mid$@#*^%#@#hyphen;twentieth century, and especially the 1960s. Protestant versions are sometimes called $@#*^%#@#ldquo;neo$@#*^%#@#hyphen;Pentecostalism$@#*^%#@#rdquor; and the Catholic movement was initially styled $@#*^%#@#ldquo;Catholic Pentecostal,$@#*^%#@#rdquor; highlighting connections with the broader…
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: A Brazilian Church Finds Success in Southern Africa
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Brazilian Pentecostal church which in little more than a decade has had considerable success in southern Africa, is analyzed as a new phenomenon in the region's religious world, bypassing the West and straddling existing ecclesiastical typologies. However, its success has been limited virtually to three countries in the region, and the reasons for its appeal in democratic South Africa and post-Marxist…
Evangelical protestantism and democratization in contemporary Latin America and Asia
This article examines the new mass Protestantism of Latin America and Asia, which is largely a pentecostalized evangelicalism. Looking at case-studies from Asia (South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, India and China) and from Latin America (Brazil, Guatemala, Peru and Nicaragua), the article stresses the importance of locating evangelical politics within the national religious and political fields. Evangelicalism is highly fragmented an…
Evangelicals and Politics in Latin America
Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America
The global expansion of evangelical Christianity is one of the most important religious developments in recent decades, but its political dimension is little studied by the comparative literature on religion and world politics. Paul Freston's book is a pioneering comparative study of the political aspects of the new mass evangelical Protestantism of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia. The book examines twenty-seven countries from…
Neo-Pentecostalism» in Brazil: Problems of Definition and the Struggle for Hegemony / Néo-pentecôtisme brésilien : problèmes de définition et luttes de pouvoir
L'article s'intéresse à deux aspects du "néo-pentecôtisme" brésilien. L'auteur rappelle d'abord les typologies qui ont été proposées du pentecôtisme brésilien (le plus important du monde et qui représente 10% de la population du pays) et le débat que ces typologies ont suscité. Il conclut ce point en affirmant que toutes les typologies actuelles (y compris celles qui font état du "néo-pentecôtisme") sont problématiques. Faute d'une véritable rech…
Pentecostalism in Brazil: A Brief History
Pentecostalism is a popular, fast-growing and politically active force in Brazilian society. It constitutes the greater part of what is now one of the largest practising Protestant communities in the world. However, there have been virtually no academic histories of the phenomenon. The current article, drawing heavily on the author's doctoral thesis, examines the six most important Pentecostal churches as dynamically evolving institutions. They a…
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: A Brazilian Church Finds Success in Southern Africa
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Brazilian Pentecostal church which in little more than a decade has had considerable success in southern Africa, is analyzed as a new phenomenon in the region's religious world, bypassing the West and straddling existing ecclesiastical typologies. However, its success has been limited virtually to three countries in the region, and the reasons for its appeal in democratic South Africa and post-Marxist…
Neo-Pentecostalism» in Brazil: Problems of Definition and the Struggle for Hegemony / Néo-pentecôtisme brésilien : problèmes de définition et luttes de pouvoir
L'article s'intéresse à deux aspects du "néo-pentecôtisme" brésilien. L'auteur rappelle d'abord les typologies qui ont été proposées du pentecôtisme brésilien (le plus important du monde et qui représente 10% de la population du pays) et le débat que ces typologies ont suscité. Il conclut ce point en affirmant que toutes les typologies actuelles (y compris celles qui font état du "néo-pentecôtisme") sont problématiques. Faute d'une véritable rech…
Duas Transições Futuras: Católicos, protestantes e sociedade na América Latina
Como resultado cumulativo das mudanças no quadro religioso da América Latina nas últimas décadas, o artigo prevê a aproximação de duas grandes transições, uma católica e a outra protestante, nas quais as relações entre religião, estado e sociedade serão amplamente modificadas. A transição católica (que talvez não ocorra em todos os países da região) se refere ao tipping point em que os antigos papéis sócio-políticos se tornam insustentáveis. O pl…
Evangelical protestantism and democratization in contemporary Latin America and Asia
This article examines the new mass Protestantism of Latin America and Asia, which is largely a pentecostalized evangelicalism. Looking at case-studies from Asia (South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, India and China) and from Latin America (Brazil, Guatemala, Peru and Nicaragua), the article stresses the importance of locating evangelical politics within the national religious and political fields. Evangelicalism is highly fragmented an…
The protestant eruption into modern Brazilian politics
Brazil's fast‐growing Protestantism has contributed to a resacralisation of national politics in recent years. This is largely due to the politics practised by some of the large Pentecostal churches since 1986, using their corporate political power to strengthen internal leaderships and structure Brazil's huge popular Protestant field, as well as to gain resources for religious expansion and dispute space in civil religion. Corporate Protestant p…
Evangelicals and politics: A comparison between Africa and Latin America
The article looks at the growing evangelical involvement in Third World politics through a comparison of Latin America and Africa. The key Latin American cases (Peru, Guatemala, Chile, Colombia and, at greater length, Brazil) are surveyed, the burgeoning literature on evangelical politics in sub‐Saharan Africa is critically reviewed and suggestions are made for further research in both continents, stressing the need for detailed country‐level stu…
Researching the Heartland of Pentecostalism: Latin Americans at Home and Abroad
Latin America is undergoing a singular process of Christian pluralization from within and from the bottom up. It is thus a unique site for globalizing the US–European debate on religion and modernity. Pentecostalism has been the engine of religious change in Latin America, introducing a new model of the religious field. This article examines the relationship between the simultaneous growth of Pentecostalism and “no religion.” Latin America is als…
Popular Protestants in Brazilian Politics: A Novel Turn in Sect-State Relations
L'A. etudie l'entree depuis 1986, de plusieurs Eglises pentecotistes importantes du Bresil sur la scene politique electorale. Apres avoir aborde les causes de la montee inattendue de leur engagement politique, leur presence a l'Assemblee constituante de 1987-88 et l'election presidentielle de 1989, l'A. precise les particularites de la presence politique des protestants bresiliens. Cette participation des mouvements religieux a la vie politique e…
Pentecostalism in Brazil: A Brief History
Pentecostalism is a popular, fast-growing and politically active force in Brazilian society. It constitutes the greater part of what is now one of the largest practising Protestant communities in the world. However, there have been virtually no academic histories of the phenomenon. The current article, drawing heavily on the author's doctoral thesis, examines the six most important Pentecostal churches as dynamically evolving institutions. They a…
The protestant eruption into modern Brazilian politics
Brazil's fast‐growing Protestantism has contributed to a resacralisation of national politics in recent years. This is largely due to the politics practised by some of the large Pentecostal churches since 1986, using their corporate political power to strengthen internal leaderships and structure Brazil's huge popular Protestant field, as well as to gain resources for religious expansion and dispute space in civil religion. Corporate Protestant p…
Pentecostalism in Latin America: Characteristics and Controversies
Now nearly 90 years old, Latin American Pentecostalism has become a mass phenomenon. Academic interest in religion, previously focused on progressive Catholicism, has turned to the Pentecostals. Pentecostalism has become a new form of popular religiosity and has an uneasy relationship with parts of academia, which is reflected in academic work. After presenting its main characteristics, the author surveys some key controversies: the extent of for…
Evangelicals and politics: A comparison between Africa and Latin America
The article looks at the growing evangelical involvement in Third World politics through a comparison of Latin America and Africa. The key Latin American cases (Peru, Guatemala, Chile, Colombia and, at greater length, Brazil) are surveyed, the burgeoning literature on evangelical politics in sub‐Saharan Africa is critically reviewed and suggestions are made for further research in both continents, stressing the need for detailed country‐level stu…
Neo-Pentecostalism» in Brazil: Problems of Definition and the Struggle for Hegemony / Néo-pentecôtisme brésilien : problèmes de définition et luttes de pouvoir
L'article s'intéresse à deux aspects du "néo-pentecôtisme" brésilien. L'auteur rappelle d'abord les typologies qui ont été proposées du pentecôtisme brésilien (le plus important du monde et qui représente 10% de la population du pays) et le débat que ces typologies ont suscité. Il conclut ce point en affirmant que toutes les typologies actuelles (y compris celles qui font état du "néo-pentecôtisme") sont problématiques. Faute d'une véritable rech…
Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America
The global expansion of evangelical Christianity is one of the most important religious developments in recent decades, but its political dimension is little studied by the comparative literature on religion and world politics. Paul Freston's book is a pioneering comparative study of the political aspects of the new mass evangelical Protestantism of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia. The book examines twenty-seven countries from…
Evangelicals and Politics in Latin America
Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Evangelical protestantism and democratization in contemporary Latin America and Asia
This article examines the new mass Protestantism of Latin America and Asia, which is largely a pentecostalized evangelicalism. Looking at case-studies from Asia (South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, India and China) and from Latin America (Brazil, Guatemala, Peru and Nicaragua), the article stresses the importance of locating evangelical politics within the national religious and political fields. Evangelicalism is highly fragmented an…
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: A Brazilian Church Finds Success in Southern Africa
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Brazilian Pentecostal church which in little more than a decade has had considerable success in southern Africa, is analyzed as a new phenomenon in the region's religious world, bypassing the West and straddling existing ecclesiastical typologies. However, its success has been limited virtually to three countries in the region, and the reasons for its appeal in democratic South Africa and post-Marxist…
Charismatic Movement
Movements usually referred to as $@#*^%#@#ldquo;charismatic$@#*^%#@#rdquor; developed within Protestant and Catholic Christianity from the mid$@#*^%#@#hyphen;twentieth century, and especially the 1960s. Protestant versions are sometimes called $@#*^%#@#ldquo;neo$@#*^%#@#hyphen;Pentecostalism$@#*^%#@#rdquor; and the Catholic movement was initially styled $@#*^%#@#ldquo;Catholic Pentecostal,$@#*^%#@#rdquor; highlighting connections with the broader…
The Many Faces of Evangelical Politics in Latin America
This chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about evangelical politics in Latin America. This book examines the interplay between contemporary religion and democracy at one of its key points, which is the relationship between the fast-growing grassroots Protestantism of the global South and the fragile democracies of one of its key regions, Latin America. It attempts to establish the connection between evangelical Protestantism and …
Globalization, Southern Christianity, and Proselytism
Christianity no longer flows unilaterally, from “Christendom” to “heathendom”; instead, its flows are increasingly complex. Understanding Islam and Christianity in the global context helps us assess the likely effects, whether negative or positive, of the current wave of missionaries from the Global South. In general the rising tide of these missionaries is not a catalyst for global religious conflagration, as some analysts might think. Like the …
Religion and Politics in the International System Today
As an expert on Chinese political culture, author of a book on Catholicism in global politics, and erstwhile Jesuit, Eric Hanson has written a book on religion and politics in the international system which will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners. Full of examples and even juicy details, this is a work over which the Iraq dêbacle casts a shadow and provides ample justification for more such studies. But Hanson's purpose is larger:…
Researching the Heartland of Pentecostalism: Latin Americans at Home and Abroad
Latin America is undergoing a singular process of Christian pluralization from within and from the bottom up. It is thus a unique site for globalizing the US–European debate on religion and modernity. Pentecostalism has been the engine of religious change in Latin America, introducing a new model of the religious field. This article examines the relationship between the simultaneous growth of Pentecostalism and “no religion.” Latin America is als…
Duas Transições Futuras: Católicos, protestantes e sociedade na América Latina
Como resultado cumulativo das mudanças no quadro religioso da América Latina nas últimas décadas, o artigo prevê a aproximação de duas grandes transições, uma católica e a outra protestante, nas quais as relações entre religião, estado e sociedade serão amplamente modificadas. A transição católica (que talvez não ocorra em todos os países da região) se refere ao tipping point em que os antigos papéis sócio-políticos se tornam insustentáveis. O pl…
Pentecostals and Politics in Latin America
This chapter describes the contours of Pentecostalism in Latin America today, and then investigates its social impact and its political involvement, especially regarding its effect on democratic strengthening. Using recent survey data on global Pentecostalism gathered by the Pew Research Center in 2006 (Spirit and Power, 2006), the social and political impacts of Latin American Pentecostalism are compared to two other major religio-political acto…
Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories and Methods
Pentecostal power: Expressions, impact and faith of Latin American Pentecostalism
This book is the first regional volume in Brill's Global pentecostal and charismatic studies series. It talks of the history and diversity of Pentecostalism in the region (Part One); theoretical ap
A religião e as eleições municipais brasileiras de 2016: A Verdadeira Novidade
\
Charismatic Movement
Movements called “charismatic” within Protestant and Catholic Christianity include renewal movements within established denominations, and independent churches and networks; all stress the availability of “charismata” or “gifts of the Holy Spirit.” The number of charismatics is estimated at 15 percent of the world's Christian population. The movement is related phenomenologically to Pentecostalism, but with some differences in theology and especi…
Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil - by Osterbaan, Martijn
Trump y la derecha religiosa: Estados Unidos, Brasil, Perú y Guatemala
Esse dossiê surgiu da preocupação com a conjuntura política e religiosa contemporânea marcada pelo recrudescimento internacional da direita e da extrema-direita em várias democracias ocidentais. Em recentes eleições europeias vêm se destacando políticos e partidos à direita, como na Itália, Holanda, Hungria, Polônia e Turquia. Mesmo não tendo sido eleita em alguns países, a extrema-direita obteve um bom desempenho nas urnas, como na França, onde …
Religião e Política no Brasil Contemporâneo: Uma Apresentação
Apresentação ao Dossiê da Revista ANTHROPOLÓGICAS, Ano 25, 32(2), 2021
Political science (23 works) · Law (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Politics (14 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (11 works) · Latin Americans (11 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (11 works) · Religion and Society in Latin America (11 works)