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.
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I’m wondering if you’re tracking the Dominican presence in Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mormans in Washington Hgts? It’s a pretty large group