ABSTRACT
In a Latin American context, the history of Chilean Pentecostalism somehow stands out due to the indigenous roots and the relatively autonomous trajectories of the Pentecostal movement in the country. Roland Robertson's concept of glocalization is useful in terms of grasping how global religious movements undergo processes of localization in different parts of the world, and more importantly how religious and other kinds of identity struggles at a local level play out within a global framework. The Methodist Pentecostal Church was founded in 1910 after a schism within the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chile. While Pentecostalism emerged as a player on Chile's religious scene in the early twentieth century, it was only a couple of decades later that the movement started spreading and proliferating. Pentecostals in contemporary Chile do, to a large extent, consider themselves to be part of a large community of evangelical hermanos.
