Religions in the Dominican Republic 1970-2020

 

 

In the 1990s, there was an unprecedented revival of Christianity among Dominicans in the Dominican Republic.

Some statisticians put the proportion of Protestants in 1970 in the Dominican Republic at 2%. Most Dominicans were Catholics, though over a third were non-practicing Catholics. Witchcraft and spiritual healing were common alternatives to tepid Christian belief.

Then, in the late 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of Dominicans converted to a hot faith, either to Protestant evangelicalism or Pentecostalism or to a Catholicism influenced by charismatic ideas.

Dominicans brought the dynamic religious forces with them to Washington Heights/Inwood.

World Christian Database 2019

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