Taylor C. Boas is Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Boston University. He is author of Presidential Campaigns in Latin America: Electoral Strategies and Success Contagion (2016).

'… a new wave of scholarship on religion and politics in Latin America has developed. Whereas an older body of work up through the 1990s primarily used qualitative methods, including ethnography and historical analysis, recent scholarship on religion and politics in the developing world typically uses both behavioralist empirical methods and rigorous tracing of causal processes. Perhaps the most important new Latin Americanist book in this renaissance is Taylor Boas's 2023 monograph … Boas's explanation is powerful and intellectually satisfying.' Amy Erica Smith, Perspectives on Politics

• 1. Explaining Evangelical Representation; 2. Voting Behavior and Political Institutions; 3. Growth, Diversity, and Political Theology; 4. Threats and Political Engagement in Brazil; 5. Comfort and Political Quiescence in Chile; 6. Cleavages and Political Ambivalence in Peru; 7. Conclusions and Comparative Perspectives.

Taylor C. Boas is Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Boston University. He is author of Presidential Campaigns in Latin America: Electoral Strategies and Success Contagion (2016).

'… a new wave of scholarship on religion and politics in Latin America has developed. Whereas an older body of work up through the 1990s primarily used qualitative methods, including ethnography and historical analysis, recent scholarship on religion and politics in the developing world typically uses both behavioralist empirical methods and rigorous tracing of causal processes. Perhaps the most important new Latin Americanist book in this renaissance is Taylor Boas's 2023 monograph … Boas's explanation is powerful and intellectually satisfying.' Amy Erica Smith, Perspectives on Politics

• 1. Explaining Evangelical Representation; 2. Voting Behavior and Political Institutions; 3. Growth, Diversity, and Political Theology; 4. Threats and Political Engagement in Brazil; 5. Comfort and Political Quiescence in Chile; 6. Cleavages and Political Ambivalence in Peru; 7. Conclusions and Comparative Perspectives.