RELS 3305 Religion in Latin America
This course addresses the major religious themes and patterns in Latin America from pre-Colombian civilizations through the colonial period, up to the present. Major issues include indigenous religions; the arrival and impact of Catholicism and the Jesuits in colonial Latin America; syncretism and religious blending of American, African, and European religious beliefs; the challenge of modernity (the Enlightenment, democracy, secularism, nationalism); Protestant and Jewish history in the region; and the recent impact of liberation theology and of the presence of evangelicals in Latin America.
Offered
As scheduled