Various Latin American evangelical denominations (umbrella)
Umbrella for Latin American evangelical denominations beyond Pentecostal mega-denominations.
CLCI radar
BITE breakdown
0 — umbrella for Latin American evangelical denominations.
Profile facts
In context
Latin American evangelicalism includes hundreds of denominations beyond Pentecostalism — Iglesia Bautista, Iglesia Metodista, Iglesia Reformada, etc. Mainstream low-moderate control.
Recovery resources
- Tears of Eden — Christian spiritual-abuse-survivor support and clinician referral.
- Recovering Grace — Originally IBLP-focused; archive includes broader fundamentalist Christian high-control material.
- Reclamation Collective — Religious-trauma-aware therapist network; relevant for post-exit identity-rebuilding.
- ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) — General referral and cult-aware therapist directory.
- Freedom of Mind Resource Center — Steven Hassan's organisation; BITE-model resources and family-side exit guidance.
See the full curated list at /resources.
This profile is in progress — history, deeper BITE evidence and survivor voices are still being added. Contributions welcome via GitHub.
Timeline
- 20th c.Latin American evangelical proliferation
Evidence matrix
Structured sources cross-linked to the claims they document. Tiered per the source hierarchy. For free-text citations see the Sources section below.
Sources
- Various academic studies search ↗
- Liberal Democracy and Social Control — American Political Science Review (1957) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1952449 open ↗
- Evangelicals Debate the Meaning of 'Evangelical — https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/weekinreview/16luo.html?_r=1&adxnnlx=1145227368-p%20hJwvCXS0qceSTw%20jLi8w&pagewanted=all open ↗
- The Harvard Guide: The Early History of Harvard University — http://www.news.harvard.edu/guide/intro/index.html open ↗
- Princeton in the American Revolution — http://www.princeton.edu/pr/facts/revolution.html open ↗
- A Historical Sketch of Rutgers University — https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/scua/rutgers-historical-sketch open ↗
- Duke University's Relation to the Methodist Church: the basics — http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/duke-umchh-basic.html open ↗
- Map Gallery of Religion in the United States — http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html open ↗
- Faith, Education and Income — https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/faith-education-and-income/ open ↗
- THE EPISCOPALIANS: UM ELITE AMERICANO COM RAÍZES VOLTANDO AO JAMESTOWN — https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/28/us/the-episcopalians-anamerican-elite-with-roots-going-back-to-jamestown.html open ↗
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/475056/Presbyterian-Church-USA open ↗
- Definindo Evangelicalismo — http://www.wheaton.edu/isae/defining_evangelicalism.html open ↗
- The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change in the United States — American Journal of Sociology (2001) — https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/324189?uid=3738936&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101211193713 open ↗
- Leading Church Bodies, 2000 — http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/geog1000/MapLinks/ReligionMaps.html open ↗
- Pentecostalism — https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/pentecostal_1.shtml open ↗
We cite sources by name and outlet rather than fabricating links. Where a source includes its own URL, the open ↗ link opens it directly; otherwise search ↗ runs a Google Scholar query for the cited title — useful for verifying academic sources. For news outlets, search the outlet's own archive.
Change history
Substantive edits logged per the score-updates policy.
- 2026-05-29Phase 1 Batch J corrective: Moderate-band (CLCI 16) entry upgraded from Mainstream-comparator lighter palette to Christian high-control palette — Batch J's clci<21 fallthrough was too lean for the documented control vector of this category.
- 2026-05-29Phase 1 Batch J: per-group recovery resources applied via programmatic palette (closest-fit by category + subCategory + score). Palette: Mainstream-comparator lighter.
- 2026-05-20Source-density flags derived from existing free-text sources[]: academic sources. Heuristic auto-flag; subsequent editorial pass will populate structuredSources[] with reliability tiers.
- 2026-05-20Score band scheme migrated from 4 bands to 5 (Minimal 0–5 / Low 6–12 / Moderate 13–20 / High 21–30 / Extreme 31–40). No CLCI value changed; the new Minimal band was carved out of the bottom of the previous Low band.
Relevant hubs
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