Institutional Religion and Modernity-in-Transition Christianity's Innovations in the Philippines and Latin America

• Main Author: Cornelio, Jayeel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2008
• Subjects: Catholicism; African Christianity; Nation states; Religious institutions; Sociology of religion; Secularization; Protestantism
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/14; https://www.jstor.org/stable/42633965?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

How can religion in developing countries be understood in the context of modernity-in-transition? Available works argue that religious innovations, appropriated primarily by groups of disenfranchised religious actors, serve as mechanisms for coping with the condition of modernity in non-Western cont...