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McCleary, Rachel M. “Protestant Doctrinal Heterodoxy and Heterogeneity in Guatemala, 1880s-1950s”. In Roots of Underdevelopment In Latin America Edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo. Springer, n.d.
McCleary, Rachel M. “Protestant Doctrinal Heterodoxy and Heterogeneity in Guatemala, 1880s-1950s”. In Roots of Underdevelopment In Latin America Edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo. Springer, n.d.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Pentecostalism disrupted the U.S. religion market. Charismatic beliefs and practices, particularly the emphasis on baptism of the Holy Spirit and miraculous physical healing, comingled with the Wesleyan holiness...
2022
McCleary, Rachel M., and Robert J. Barro. “Martyrs of Latin America, 1854-2022”. Fe Y Libertad, 2022.
McCleary, Rachel M., and Robert J. Barro. “Martyrs of Latin America, 1854-2022”. Fe Y Libertad, 2022.
Pope John Paul II began the recent trend of beatifying martyrs and confessors of Latin America. Together, Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis have beatified 111 martyrs and 53 confessors in Latin America. These numbers represent 87% and 72%...
McCleary, Rachel M. “Catholic Child and Youth Martyrs, 1588-2022”. Catholic Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2022): 469-508.
McCleary, Rachel M. “Catholic Child and Youth Martyrs, 1588-2022”. Catholic Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2022): 469-508.
Child and youth martyrs throughout the history of Christianity are few. New emphasis on their presence in the twentieth century raises questions about the nature of sanctity. Using a new data set on child, adolescent, and youth martyrs beatified and...
2020
McCleary, Rachel M., and Robert J. Barro. “Opening the Fifth Seal Catholic Martyrs and Forces of Religious Competition ”. Journal of Religion and Demography 7 (2020): 92-122.
McCleary, Rachel M., and Robert J. Barro. “Opening the Fifth Seal Catholic Martyrs and Forces of Religious Competition ”. Journal of Religion and Demography 7 (2020): 92-122.
Since Pope John Paul II's stock-taking of twentieth century martyrs, the Catholic Church has significantly increased the beatification and canonization of martyrs. Not only have the numbers of martyrs increased but the definition of martyrdom has...
2019
McCleary, Rachel M., and Robert J. Barro. The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging . First. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.
McCleary, Rachel M., and Robert J. Barro. The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging . First. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.
2018
McCleary, Rachel M. “Pentecostals, Kinship, and Moral Economy in Guatemala ”. Journal of Markets and Morality 21, no. 1 (2018): 167-89.
McCleary, Rachel M. “Pentecostals, Kinship, and Moral Economy in Guatemala ”. Journal of Markets and Morality 21, no. 1 (2018): 167-89.
Using a set of interviews with Pentecostal churches in Guatemala, this study makes the following conclusions about the role of family and kinship in this segment of Latin America's rapidly expanding evangelical population. First, evangelization...
2017
McCleary, Rachel. “Protestant Innovative Evangelizing to Oral Cultures in Guatemala”. In Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity, edited by Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens and David Orique.
McCleary, Rachel. “Protestant Innovative Evangelizing to Oral Cultures in Guatemala”. In Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity, edited by Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens and David Orique.
Barro, Robert, and Rachel McCleary. “Protestant Competition Is Good for Saints”. American Enterprise Insitute, 2017.
Barro, Robert, and Rachel McCleary. “Protestant Competition Is Good for Saints”. American Enterprise Insitute, 2017.
2016
McCleary, Rachel, and Robert Barro. “Saints Marching In, 1590-2012”. Economica, 2016.
McCleary, Rachel, and Robert Barro. “Saints Marching In, 1590-2012”. Economica, 2016.
2011
McCleary, Rachel, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion. 2011. Reprint, Oxford University Press, 2011.
McCleary, Rachel, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion. 2011. Reprint, Oxford University Press, 2011.
This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for the first time. The treatment of topics is interdisciplinary, comparative, as well as global in nature. Scholars apply the economics of religion approach to...
2010
McCleary, Rachel, Robert Barro, and Jason Hwang. “Religious Conversion in 40 Countries”. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2010.
McCleary, Rachel, Robert Barro, and Jason Hwang. “Religious Conversion in 40 Countries”. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2010.
McCleary, Rachel, and Leonard Kuijp. “A Market Approach to the Rise of the Geluk School in Tibet, 1419-1642”. Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 1 (2010).
McCleary, Rachel, and Leonard Kuijp. “A Market Approach to the Rise of the Geluk School in Tibet, 1419-1642”. Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 1 (2010).