Abstract
Pentecostalism is currently the largest growing non-Catholic religious minority in Mexico today. In order to discover some of the factors which permit this growth, this article compares the development of Pentecostalism in urban and rural areas of Mexico. Most of our information derives from two areas where the author has carried out research. These are the Indian villages of the Sierra Norte de Puebla and the urban settlements of migrants in Iztapalapa, located in Mexico City. Among the cultural elements which are compared in this article are social stratification and economic behaviour, kinship ties and family organization, political activity, ritual and ideology. The relationship between religious conversion and urban-rural migration is considered an important field for future studies.