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



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Autore: Smilde David Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reason to believe [[electronic resource] ] : cultural agency in Latin American evangelicalism / / David Smilde Visualizza cluster
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 non controllato: benefits of religion
caracas
christian converts
christianity
conflict resolution
cultural agency
cultural history
ethnographers
evangelical conversion
evangelical protestantism
evangelicalism
faith and religion
fieldwork
latin american history
latin american studies
nonfiction
overcoming substance abuse
pentecostal men
religious communities
religious historians
self discipline
south america
urban ethnography
venezuela
world religions
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910784418303321
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Serie: Anthropology of Christianity ; ; 3.