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Latin American Pentecostal broader (umbrella)

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Confidence: HighLast reviewed 29 May 2026Wikipedia

Broader Latin American Pentecostal boom umbrella beyond Brazil. Mainstream low-moderate control. 200+ million adherents across region.

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Low Control

BITE breakdown

Behavior Control3/10
Information Control3/10
Thought Control3/10
Emotional Control3/10
Modifiers (+0)

0 — broader Latin American Pentecostal boom; mainstream.

Profile facts

Founded
1910s+
Members
200+ million across region
Active in
LatAm

In context

Latin American Pentecostalism has grown to 200+ million adherents across Mexico, Central America, Andean countries, and Southern Cone. Mainstream low-moderate control religious tradition with specific higher-control sub-currents.

Recovery resources

See the full curated list at /resources.

Evidence by BITE axis

Information Control
  • Specific prosperity-gospel sub-currents higher control

Timeline

  1. 1910s+
    Latin American Pentecostal movement

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.

TitleTypeReliabilityYear
Liberal Democracy and Social Control — American Political Science Review (1957)AcademicSecondary—
Evangelicals Debate the Meaning of 'EvangelicalJournalismSecondary—
The Harvard Guide: The Early History of Harvard UniversityAcademicSecondary—
Princeton in the American RevolutionAcademicSecondary—
A Historical Sketch of Rutgers UniversityAcademicSecondary—
Duke University's Relation to the Methodist Church: the basics · archiveAcademicSecondary—
Map Gallery of Religion in the United States · archiveAcademicSecondary—
Faith, Education and Income · archiveJournalismSecondary—
THE EPISCOPALIANS: UM ELITE AMERICANO COM RAÍZES VOLTANDO AO JAMESTOWNJournalismSecondary—
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)OrganisationTertiary—
Definindo EvangelicalismoAcademicSecondary—
The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change in the United States — American Journal of Sociology (2001)AcademicSecondary—
Leading Church Bodies, 2000 · archiveAcademicSecondary—
Pentecostalism · archiveJournalismSecondary—

Sources

  • David Martin academic work 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.

  1. 2026-05-29Phase 1 Batch J: per-group recovery resources applied via programmatic palette (closest-fit by category + subCategory + score). Palette: Mainstream-comparator lighter.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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