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RELIGION-IN-THE-AMERICAS:
BY REGIONS & COUNTRIES

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS BODIES IN
THE AMERICAS AND THE IBERIAN PENINSULA:
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ARTICLES
General Editor, Dr. Clifton L. Holland

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INTRODUCTION:
A Classification System of Religious Groups in the Americas
by Dr. Clifton L. Holland

NOTE: the country in (  ) is the country of origin.

Adventist-Related Groups (USA)

Afro-Caribbean Religions 

Agnosticism-Atheism

Alice Bailey Groups (USA)

Ancient Wisdom Groups

Anglican Church

Animistic Religions

Apostolic Church of Faith in Jesus Christ (Mexico)

Apostolic Assembly of Faith in Jesus Christ (USA)

Ascended Masters Movement (USA)

Atheism-Agnosticism

Ayahauscan Religions (Brazil and Peru)

Baha'i Faith

Baptist Churches

Batuque (Brazil)

Brethren Assemblies (Plymouth Brethren)

Brujería-Witchcraft

Buddhist Groups

Centers of Faith, Hope and Love (Mexico)

Central American Mission-Related Churches (Costa Rica)

Charismatic Renewal Movement (see Spanish text)

Children of God-Family of Love (USA)

Chinese Religions

Christian Assemblies (Puerto Rico)

Christian Churches and Churches of Christ (USA)

Christian Science-Related Groups (USA)

Church of God Israelite (Mexico)

Church in the Province of the West Indies

Church of God, Mission Board (Puerto Rico)

CLAI (Latin American Council of Churches)

Condomblé (Brazil)

CONELA (Latin American Fellowship of Evangelicals)

Cult of the Virgin Mary

Damascus Christian Church (Puerto Rico)

Defenders of the Faith (Puerto Rico)

Eastern Orthodox Groups

Elim Christian Mission (Guatemala)

Episcopal Church (USA)

Evangelical Church of the River Plate

Evangelical Church of the West Indies

Freemasonry

Garífuna Religion (Central America)

God is Love Pentecostal Church (Brazil)

Gnostic Movement

Growing in Grace Churches

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Hindu-Related Religions

Holiness Movement (USA)

Holy Palmarian Church (Portugal)

International Evangelical Church, 
Soldiers of the Cross-Gedeon's Band (Cuba)

Islamic Groups

Israelites of the New Universal Covenant (Bolivia)

Jain Groups

Japanese Religions

Jehovah's Witnesses (USA)

Judaism

Kele Religion (Caribbean)

Kumina Religion (Caribbean)

Latin American Council of Christian Churches (USA)

Latin America Mission-Related Churches (Costa Rica)

Liberal Catholic Groups

Light of the World Church (Mexico)

Lutheran Churches

Marginal Christian Groups

María Lionza Religion (Venezuela)

Marian Trinitarian Spiritualist Movement (Mexico)

Martinista Order (Haiti)

Mennonite Churches

Messianic Movements

Messianic Jews

Methodist Churches

Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas

Methodist Pentecostal Church of Chile

Metropolitan Community Churches

Missionary Church of Christ (Puerto Rico)

Mita Congregation (Puerto Rico)

Moravian Church

Mormons-Latter Day Saints (USA)

Myalism (Caribbean)

Native American Religions

Nativistic Movements

Neo-Pagan Groups

New Acropolis Cultural Centers (Argentina)

New Age Groups (USA)

New Thought-Metaphysical (USA)

Obeah (Caribbean)

Occult Orders

People of God (Paraguay)

People's Temple (Guyana)

Pentecostal Church of God, MI (Puerto Rico)

Pentecostal Movement (USA)

Peyote Religion (USA and Mexico)

Pietistic Movement

Prince of Peace Evangelical Churches (Guatemala)

Protestant Movement

Psychic-Spiritualist Groups

Pukumina-Pocomania (Caribbean)

Quimbanda (Brazil)

Rada Community (Trinidad-Tobago)

Rastafarian Religion (Jamaica)

Reformed-Presbyterian Churches

Ritual Magic

Rosicrucian Groups

Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Religious Orders

Samaria Evangelical Church Council (Puerto Rico)

Sant Mat Groups

Santería-Regla de Ocha (Cuba and Puerto Rico)

Satanistic Groups in Spain

Shamanism

Shango-Chango (Caribbean)

Silvan Method (USA-Mexico)

Spiritual Baptists or "Shouters" (Caribbean)

Spiritual Evangelical Christian Church (Mexico)

Spiritualism-Spiritism

Swedenborgism

Theosophy

Traditional Magic-Witchcraft

UFO-Related Groups

Umbanda (Brazil)

United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands

United Protestant Church of Netherlands Antilles

Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Brazil)

Universal Gnostic Christian Movement (Mexico)

Universal Grand Fraternity (Venezuela)

Waldensian Church

Western Autonomous Catholic Traditions

World Wide Missionary Movement (Puerto Rico)

Voice of the Chief Cornerstone (Puerto Rico)

Winti Religion (Surinam)

Witchcraft-Brujería (Traditional Magic)

Zion Revivalism (Jamaica)

Voudou-Vudún-Voodoo or Regla Arará (Haití)

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