GARCIA LEGUIZAMON, Fernando. Protestants, Evangelicals and Pentecostals: Some preliminary conceptual clarifications in a social research field. []. , 36, pp.171-187. ISSN 0123-4870.

Abstract This paper sets out the basic doctrinal principles of Protestantism and points out the rise and core traits of the currently fastest growing religious movement in the world, which is Pentecostalism. Subsequently, it outlines the historical aspects of the arrival and development of protestant churches in Colombia and finally, it introduces some theoretical approaches in order to address these religious phenomena in contemporary sociology and psychology.

: Protestantism; Evangelicalism; Pentecostalism; religion sociology; Pentecostalism psychology.

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