ORIGINAL PAPER ‘‘Leaving the Faith of Our Fathers’’: Intergenerational Persistence and Class Cleavage of Evangelicals in Chile Manuel Alcaino 1 • Bernardo Mackenna 1 Received: 15 March 2016 / Accepted: 3 March 2017 Ó Religious Research Association, Inc. 2017 Abstract Several studies have consistently linked the Evangelical breakdown in Latin America as a mass movement mainly adopted by impoverished working class individuals. However, little is known about how religious inheritance and recruit- ment of Evangelical movements is affected when status conditions improve along individuals trajectories. Using Bicentenario Survey from 2006 to 2010 we analyze how intergenerational patterns of religious persistence in Chile relate to individuals’ educational attainment and intergenerational mobility. Two mechanisms are eval- uated: first, the intergenerational persistence of Evangelicals compared to Catholics and ‘‘None’s’’; and second, the probability of conversion or reaffiliation to Evan- gelical Protestantism. Multinomial regression analysis shows that the greater an individual’s educational credentials and upward mobility, the lesser their identifi- cation with Evangelical movements, regardless of their religious affiliation or educational attainment of origin. This evidence suggests there are obstacles for Evangelical movements’ vertical mobility, which could be related to Chile’s strong social cleavage in terms of religion. Keywords Evangelical Protestantism Á Intergenerational persistence Á Latin America Á Chile & Manuel Alcaino mjalcaino@uc.cl Bernardo Mackenna bmackenn@uc.cl 1 Department of Sociology, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Vicun ˜a Mackenna 4686, Macul, Santiago, Chile 123 Rev Relig Res DOI 10.1007/s13644-017-0287-4