Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Latin American Pentecostalism and the academy / Calvin L. Smith -- Pt. 1. History and expressions of Latin American Pentecostalism. Redemption from below : the emergence of the Latin American popular Pentecostals / Everett A. Wilson -- Another way of being Pentecostal / Juan Sepúlveda -- Hispanic Pentecostals in the United States / Carmelo Álvarez -- Pt. 2. Theoretical treatments and political impact of Latin American Pentecostalism. Latin American Pentecostalsim : the ideological battleground / Bernice Martin -- Interpretations of Latin American Pentecostalism : 1960s to the present / Bernice Martin -- Explaining Central American Pentecostalism within social inequality and conflict : on habitus-analysis as a clue to describe religious praxis / Heinrich W. Schäfer -- Evaluating prophetic radicalism : the nature of Pentecostal politics in Brazil / Stephen Hunt -- Pt. 3. Theological analyses of Latin American Pentecostalism. Pneumapraxis and eschatological urgency : a survey of Latin American Pentecostal theology and its outworking / Calvin L. Smith -- Pentecostalism's theological reconstruction of the identity of the Latin American family / Virginia Nolivos and Eloy H. Nolivos -- Why the devil is Satan so important in Chilean Pentecostalism? : power, resistance and Pentecostal micro-politics / Martin Lindhardt -- Roman Cahtolic-Pentecostal dialogue : challenges and lessons for living together / Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. -- Concluding remarks / William K. Kay.