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and finished the Catholic monopoly \u2018resembles Willems\u2019 anomic interpretation of Latin American Pentecostal expansion linking it to global processes\u2019 (1998: 29).\u000ADroogers points out that the analyses of Pentecostalism from the modernization or Neo Marxist perspectives, give more attention to external factors. According to him, in order to understand comprehensively more attention needs to be given to the internal religious characteristics and their articulation within the external circumstances of globalization (2001: 41). He underscores that Pentecostalism covers a variety of forms, historical features, organizational and social diversity, political issues, as well as a combination of opposite characteristics such as their eschatology (2001: 46-51). For Droogers, the role and action of the Holy Spirit in the Pentecostal community, conversion and its impact in the lives of the believers and their dual vision of the world (God and Satan are at war) make up the internal characteristics which explain their penetration and advance in the world. He summarizes, \u2018[...] these internal religious elements together, as a constellation, make Pentecostalism a religion that fits with the globalizing world\u2019 (2001: 54-59).\u000AJean-Pierre Bastian does not agree with Martin\u2019s perspective about Pentecostalism. He questions that the present forms of millennialisms and other minor heterodoxies, form part of a logical Protestant system. The movements which are called Protestant from the 1960s simply adopted \u2018the attitudes and values of popular religion as a result of the Pentecostal revolution\u2019 (1993: 43; 1990: 151). He underlines that what happens in Latin America is a religious mutation in which the social actor simultaneously resorts to the maxim of religious offers which seek to give efficient answers to problems of poverty and exclusion. At the same time the social actor gets used to changing his religious practices according to the stages of his life and the situations which are presented to him (1997: 209- 210).\u000AFor Bastian original Protestantism allowed the emergence of the subordinate and anomic culture of Pentecostalism. For him, \u2018[...] neither the new Latin American religious\u000A12\u000A