Reason to believe : cultural agency in Latin American evangelicalism /
Based on fieldwork among Pentecostal men in Caracas, Venezuela, this 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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | Anthropology of Christianity ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | Based on fieldwork among Pentecostal men in Caracas, Venezuela, this 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520940147 0520940148 9781429482271 1429482273 9786612358661 6612358661 |