What is it about?
Jakob Egeris Thorsen’s book, Charismatic Practice and Catholic Parish Life, is a detailed analysis of the overall transformation of Christianity in Latin America that systematically documents how the religious landscape begins to dramatically change in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Why is it important?
The vast majority of Thorsen’s focus is built around his case study in a middle-class town outside of Guatemala City, Guatemala, known as La Colonia. Thorsen uses this particular town, and a number of specific individuals who embody this ecumenical paradigm shift, as examples of how the Charismatic Catholicism Revival has attempted to find agency and space between both Catholicism as well as Pentecostalism. This is important because Thorsen provides the reader with a framework to look at the history and the implications of the Protestant phenomenon, as well as make certain analytical and educational predications pertaining to the ecumenical direction that the Latin American Church is moving as well as the Continental Mission of the Church in general.
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Ph.D. student in History at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, USA. As a Latin Americanist and modernist, my focus is on Latin American liberation movements and US interventions in Latin America.
Jason R. Old
University of South Florida
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This page is a summary of: Charismatic Practice and Catholic Parish Life: The Incipient Pentecostalization of the Church in Guatemala and Latin America, written by Jakob Egeris Thorsen, Pneuma, January 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15700747-03804011.
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