transformations in the history of the continent. This has been studied in David
Stoll, Is Latin America turning Protestant?(1990); in the essays found in
Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America, edited by Virginia Garrard-Burnett
and David Stoll (1993); as well as in those collected in Latin American Religion
in Motion, edited by Christian Smith and Joshua Prokopy (1999).
This essay will conclude as it began, by dealing with the issue of boundaries,
geographical and disciplinary. In Hosay Trinidad(2003), Frank Korom traces
the Shi‘i Muharran ritual from Iran to South Asia and from there to the
Caribbean; in so doing, he addresses from various disciplinary perspectives the
issues whose insoluble character led to the appearance of religions: identity,
violence, maintenance, and transformation.NOTE
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