ABSTRACT
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a movement that began in the United States within the Roman Catholic Church, synthesizing elements of Catholicism and Pentecostalism with ecumenical leanings and a tropism towards development of intentional communities. This chapter focuses on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement as a particularly apt example of globalization or planetarization of world religions. The International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (ICCRS) is an instrumental clearing house through the retreats, workshops, leadership training and newsletter that it sponsors. Brazil is a predominantly Catholic nation where the Renewal interacts with strong Marian traditions as well as Kardecist spiritism and the gamut of Afro-Brazilian religions. Nigeria is an ethnically diverse nation where Catholicism is strongest among the Igbo and the Renewal exists in relation to traditional religion in the local setting and within the Christian/Islamic dynamic on the national scene. India's Catholic population is concentrated regionally in the southwest, and the Renewal exists in relation to Hindu and Muslim traditions.
