Influx
of Protestants to South America during the second half of the nineteenth
century. |
Waves of immigration,
which paralleled the nineteenth-century immigration
to North America, also came to South America. As the immigrants helped
build new economies, they also changed the religious life of South America.
Countries which had been made self-governing by independence
movements granted religious toleration. Protestantism was therefore
able to plant itself in areas which had been exclusively Roman Catholic,
a process which continued with Latin American
evangelicalism.
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