New Faces of God in Latin America

Virginia Garrard is Director of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Among many other publications, her most recent work, co-authored with Peter Henderson and Bryan McCann, is Latin America and the Modern World. Her research interests include: historic memory and human rights during the Cold War in Latin America, archives and digital humanities, and contemporary Central American history.

• Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Finding the Seeds of the Word: Inculturation Theology: Inculturation Theology in Indigenous Latin AmericaChapter 2: Tricksters, Gods and Global Pentecostalism in Almolonga, GuatemalaChapter 3: A Turn the Dark Side: Witches, Devils, and Off-Label Saints in MexicoChapter 4: Earthquakes, Trauma, and Celestial Remedies: Haiti, 2010,Chapter 5: Neopentecostalism, Religious Marketing, and New Technologies of Self Epilogue Notes Index

In this new research, she broadens her range of analyzes and focuses on current religious dynamics in Latin America in the context of the "global south". By taking into account a large literature, the approach is intended to be interdisciplinary, as much historical, anthropological, ethnographic as theological, without excluding field surveys, which the author has regularly carried out. Well-informed, the subject is enriched by a perspective that aims to be at the intersection of local religious manifestations and global Christianity, and remains attentive to the work carried out on African and Asian Christian religious revivals.