Reason to believe [[electronic resource] ] : cultural agency in Latin American evangelicalism / / David Smilde

• Autore: Smilde David
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 280/.409877
• Soggetto topico: Evangelicalism - Venezuela - Caracas; Pentecostalism - Venezuela - Caracas; Christianity and culture - Venezuela - Caracas; Men - Religious life
• Soggetto geografico: Caracas (Venezuela) Church history
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Beginnings -- Imaginative rationality -- Relational imagination.
• Sommario/riassunto: Evangelical 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reason to believe
• ISBN: 1-282-35866-9; 0-520-94014-8; 9786612358661; 1-4337-0841-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457606503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology of Christianity ; ; 3.