Paul Freston

Paul Freston is the CIGI Chair in Religion and Politics in Global Context at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is also professor colaborador on the post-graduate programme in sociology at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil. He has worked mainly on religion and politics, the growth of popular forms of Protestantism in Latin America, and questions of religion and globalization. His books include Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America (Cambridge, 2001); Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey (2004); (ed.) Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America (2008); and (coauthored) Nem Anjos Nem Demônios: Interpretações Sociológicas do Pentecostalismo (1994).