This encyclopedia provides an overview of the main religions of Latin America and the Caribbean, both its centralized transnational expressions and its local variants and schisms. These main religions include (but are not limited to) the major expressions of Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and Jehovah s Witnesses), indigenous religions (Native American, Inuit, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, Maya, etc.), syncretic Christianity (including Afro-Brazilian religions like Umbanda and Candomble and Afro-Caribbean religions like Vodun and Santeria), other world...