April 2016
The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present.
Religion has always been central in the life of Latin America, a region that has more Catholics and more Pentecostals than any other region of the world. However, the region is undergoing a rapid process of religious change and has a very important role in the debates over religion, globalization, and modernity.
This volume, published by Cambridge University press in April 2016, addresses the breadth of Latin American religion, including religions of the African diaspora, indigenous spiritual expressions, new religious movements, alternative spiritualities, and secularizing tendencies.
Read about religion and health in HCS-Manguinhos:
Soumonni, Elisée. Disease, religion and medicine:smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2012, vol.19, suppl.1, p.35-45. ISSN 0104-5970
Molero-Mesa, Jorge. “Del maestro sangrador al médico… europeo”: medicina, ciencia y diferencia colonial en el protectorado español de Marruecos (1912-1956). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2006, vol.13, no.2, p.375-392. ISSN 0104-5970
Joseph, D. George. “Essentially Christian, eminently philanthropic”: The Mission to Lepers in British India. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2003, vol.10, suppl.1, p.247-275. ISSN 0104-5970
