Reforming Fundamentalism in Latin America

The Evangelical Left and Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana

Bibliographic Data

ID8206624
AuthorsDavid C Kirkpatrick (0000-0002-5037-0152, James Madison University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume87
Issue1
Pages122-155
Publication date2019-03-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jaarel/lfy033
OpenAlexW2891632009
LanguageEN
References cited22

The importation of North American fundamentalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries begat an emerging generation of progressive evangelicals in Latin America. The history of Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana constitutes the untold story of negotiation for national control of religious institutions and ideologies. These battles at the intersection of the United States and Latin America provide an alternative fundamentalist genealogy and disaggregate monolithic renderings of hemispheric evangelicalism. Seen in this light, the emergence of Latin American evangelicalism is a history of negotiation for managerial control. This article widens the boundaries for studying fundamentalism in the Americas and, in doing so, reveals the diversity, fragility, and resilience of an eclectic coalition known for the first time as the Latin American Evangelical Left.

Fundamentalism · Latin Americans · Political science · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies

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