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This paper describes how Mexican Religious Studies could benefit with the usage of the postdenominational category to better understand the country's changing religious landscape, especially how 2020's National Census demonstrated a never-before seen increase in the number of people who claimed to have no religion and given how the country is undergoing a major religious shift (ENCREER, 2016). Overall, most studies in Mexico use a given set of categories to understand the religious phenomenon, but there has been a tendency to use pentecostalism, neopentecostalism and evangelicalism as umbrella terms to refer to any christian denomination that differs from catholicism, mainline protestantism or non-trinitarian groups such as the Jehova's Witnesses or the Seventh-Day Adventists. Using field-data, we argue that the postdenominational category (Miller, 1998), widely used in english speaking countries, is a necessary addition to our analysis of emerging religious groups in Mexico, because it will allow for a more precise understanding of the religious diversity and evolution of the religious phenomenon not just in the aforementioned country, but also in other countries in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the fall of 2015, one year before Donald Trump became the U.S. president, Jimmy Morales, an evangelical Christian, won the presidential election in Guatemala. This article examines the political-religious activism, the transnationally-active networks, and the impact of the Christian Right between these two countries. Furthermore, it analyzes the influence of Christian Zionism in this activism and in these networks. Three examples serve to illustrate the complexities at stake: (1) the impact in Guatemala of the "Mexico City Policy", a U.S. policy called the "Global Gag Rule" by its critics; (2) initiative L5272, the "Law for the Protection of Life and the Family;" and the decision of Morales to move the Guatemalan embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, shortly after the United States did. The article concludes that, with the Trump and Morales administrations, the separation between church and state dissolved; and the so-called "culture war" intensified in both countries in the political and legislative realms, through the efforts of evangelical actors; and further that this phenomenon caused severe setbacks in human rights, especially for women and LGTBQIA+ persons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]