ABSTRACT
Within the analysis of the relationship between Pentecostalism and politics in Argentina and Chile, the authors identify three main currents: the relationship of Pentecostalism with the processes of modernization in the second part of the twentieth century; the anthropological turn and the identification of Pentecostal identity; and the processes of minoritization in the dynamics of Pentecostalism from a micro-political sense. The particularities of Pentecostalism made it one of the most striking groups for the scientific study of religions in the region. In fact, the development of the field of Pentecostal studies in Latin America since the 1970s went hand in hand with the Pentecostal transformation of Latin American itself, not only as a deeply studied group, but also as an analytical reference in socio-anthropological terms as a comparative framework for the study of other religious groups and phenomena.
