This study seeks to understand the contemporary public practices of evangelicals through the assumptions and perceptions of evangelical leaders who are leading collective forays into the public sphere. In this way, this study explores the connections between religious belief and the practice of meaning-making in the context of the mediatization of Latin American public religion.

First, the main purpose of the study is to describe the assumptions and forms of evangelical participation in the public sphere in Perú. Second, this study seeks to understand how the presence of evangelicalism and Pentecostalism are changing the social and political landscape. Third, the study analyzes how public participation shapes and re-signifies the religious identity of evangelicals, especially with regard to the changes in institutionalized religion. The public participation of evangelicals is spurring the development of new leaderships, representations, and relationships beyond the boundaries of institutionalized religion. For this reason, this study investigates what kind of negotiations or resistances are taking place in the relationship between the public empowerment of religion and institutional religious authority, and will observe the relationship between sacrality and secularity as well as the relationship between the public and the private.