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Growth of global desecularization (view source)
Revision as of 08:44, April 9, 2016
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*[[Atheist Population|Atheist population]]
*[[Atheist Population|Atheist population]]
== Global scope of indigenous evangelical Christianity evangelism ==
Peter L. Berger in his book T''he Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics'' wrote:
{{cquote|The origins of this worldwide Evangelical upsurge are in the
United States. from which the missionaries first went out. But it is
very important to understand that, virtually everywhere and emphat-
ically in Latin America, this new Evangelicalism is thoroughly in-
digenous and no longer dependent on support from U.S. fellow be-
lievers-indeed, Latin American Evangelicals have been sending
missionaries to the Hispanic communiry in this country where there
has been a comparable flurry of conversions.
Needless to say, the religious contents of the Islamic and Evangelical revivals are totally different. So are the social and political consc-quences (of which I will say more later). But the rwo developlnents also differ in another very important respect: The Islamic movement is occurring primarily in countries that are already Muslim or among Muslim emigrants (as in Europe), while the Evangelical movement is growing dramatically throughout the world in countries where this type of religion was previously unknown or very marginal.<ref>''The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics'' by Peter L. Berger, Page 9</ref>}}
== Rapid growth of evangelical Christianity and pentecostalism ==
== Rapid growth of evangelical Christianity and pentecostalism ==