Global Christianity Immigrant Protestantism in Latin America
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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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