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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...
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02 July 2007
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.
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Pages: 277
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
02 July 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520249431
Format: Paperback
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“Within the context of a continuous social crisis, I consider Smilde’s book a most valuable and helpful contribution in this field.”
David Smilde is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. He is co-author, with Margarita López Maya and Keta Stephany, of Protesta y cultura en Venezuela: Los Marcos de acción colectiva en 1999.
A Note on Translations and Names
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: BEGINNINGS
1. Making Sense of Cultural Agency
2. The Venezuelan Context: Confronting La Crisis
PART TWO: 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 THREE: RELATIONAL IMAGINATION
6. The Social Structure of Conversion
7. Two Lives, Five Years Later
8. Toward a Relational Pragmatic Theory of Cultural Agency
Epilogue
Appendix A: Status of Evangelical Respondents after Five Years
Appendix B: Methods and Methodology
Appendix C: Quantitative Analysis of Networks and Conversion
Glossary of Spanish Terms
References
Index
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: BEGINNINGS
1. Making Sense of Cultural Agency
2. The Venezuelan Context: Confronting La Crisis
PART TWO: 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 THREE: RELATIONAL IMAGINATION
6. The Social Structure of Conversion
7. Two Lives, Five Years Later
8. Toward a Relational Pragmatic Theory of Cultural Agency
Epilogue
Appendix A: Status of Evangelical Respondents after Five Years
Appendix B: Methods and Methodology
Appendix C: Quantitative Analysis of Networks and Conversion
Glossary of Spanish Terms
References
Index