Latin American Protestant growth represents intensified religiosity, not mere religious substitution.

Evidence

A similar and parallel shift occurred in Latin America. The number of Protestants in Latin America increased from roughly 7 million in 1960 to about 50 million in 1990. … The spread of Protestantism among the poor in Latin America is not primarily the replacement of one religion by another but rather a major net increase in religious commitment and participation as nominal and passive Catholics become active and devout Evangelicals. In Brazil in the early 1990s, for instance, 20 percent of the population identified themselves as Protestant and 73 percent as Catholic, yet on Sundays 20 million people were in Protestant churches and about 12 million were in Catholic ones. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 271

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts secularization theory that expects modernization to erode religion; parallels the South Korea case in paragraph 270.