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Author(s): David Smilde
ISBN(s): 9780520249431, 0520249437
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.33 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520249437 
ISBN 13: 9780520249431
Author: David Smilde

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.

Reason to Believe Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism The Anthropology of Christianity 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Beginnings
1 Making Sense of Cultural Agency
2 The Venezuelan Context: Confronting La Crisis
Part II. Imaginative Rationality
3 Imagining Social Life I: Confronting Akrasia, Crime, and Violence
4 Imagining Social Life II: Addressing Personal and Social Issues
5 Imagining Evangelical Practice
Part III. Relational Imagination
6 The Social Structure of Conversion
7 Two Lives, Five Years Later
8 Toward a Relational Pragmatic Theory of Cultural Agency

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