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TABLE OF CONTENTS\u000ADEDICATION i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii ABBREVIATIONS ix\u000ACHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1\u000AA. NEW SOCIAL ACTORS 1\u000AB. WORK HYPOTHESIS 3\u000AC. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 5\u000AD. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE THESIS 7\u000AE. KEY TERMS 9\u000AF. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TOPIC 11\u000A1. Socio-religious importance 11 2. Political importance 15 3. Academic importance 16\u000AG. NEO-PENTECOSTALISM IN GUATEMALA 18\u000A1. Evangelicals in general 18 Table 1.1 Percentages of the population of the country according to the\u000Aassistance to different Evangelical congregations 21 2. Pentecostals 21 3. Neo-Pentecostalism 23\u000AH. METHODOLOGY 28\u000A1. Instruments for the analysis 28 2. Churches studied 30 3. Interviews 32\u000Aa. Senior pastors 32 b. Associate pastors 34 c. Interviews with the lay people 34 d. Interviews outside of Neo-Pentecostal churches 36\u000A(1) Internal observers (IO) 36\u000A(2) External observers (EO) 37 4. Questionnaires 37 5. Secondary sources of information 39\u000AI. GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE THESIS 40 CHAPTER II: THE NEO-PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES IN GUATEMALA 42\u000AA. EVANGELICALS AND GUATEMALAN CONTEXT 42\u000A1. A Global perspective of the Guatemalan context 42 2. Evangelicals in Guatemalan society 44 a. Evangelicals in the revolutionary era 46\u000A(1) How did the Catholic Church react within the political context? 46 (2) What was happening to the Evangelicals during these governments? 47\u000Aiii\u000A