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181   $ctxt
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200 10$aReason to believe $ecultural agency in Latin American evangelicalism /$fDavid Smilde
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (280 p.)
225 1 $aThe anthropology of Christianity ;$v3
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-24942-9 
311   $a0-520-24943-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index.
327   $aBeginnings -- Imaginative rationality -- Relational imagination.
330   $aEvangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America, if not the world. For converts, it emphasizes self-discipline and provides a network of communal support, which together have helped many overcome substance abuse, avoid crime and violence, and resolve relationship problems. But can people simply decide to believe in a religion because of the benefits it reportedly delivers? Based on extensive fieldwork among Pentecostal men in Caracas, Venezuela, this rich urban ethnography seeks an explanation for the explosion of Evangelical Protestantism, unraveling the cultural and personal dynamics of Evangelical conversion to show how and why these men make the choice to convert, and how they come to have faith in a new system of beliefs and practices.
410  0$aAnthropology of Christianity ;$v3.
606   $aEvangelicalism$zVenezuela$zCaracas
606   $aPentecostalism$zVenezuela$zCaracas$vCase studies
606   $aChristianity and culture$zVenezuela$zCaracas
606   $aMen$xReligious life
607   $aCaracas (Venezuela)$xChurch history
610   $abenefits of religion.
610   $acaracas.
610   $achristian converts.
610   $achristianity.
610   $aconflict resolution.
610   $acultural agency.
610   $acultural history.
610   $aethnographers.
610   $aevangelical conversion.
610   $aevangelical protestantism.
610   $aevangelicalism.
610   $afaith and religion.
610   $afieldwork.
610   $alatin american history.
610   $alatin american studies.
610   $anonfiction.
610   $aovercoming substance abuse.
610   $apentecostal men.
610   $areligious communities.
610   $areligious historians.
610   $aself discipline.
610   $asouth america.
610   $aurban ethnography.
610   $avenezuela.
610   $aworld religions.
615  0$aEvangelicalism
615  0$aPentecostalism
615  0$aChristianity and culture
615  0$aMen$xReligious life.
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