Reason to Believe Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism

Name: Reason to Believe Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism
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ISBN: 9780520249424

ISBN-10: 0520249429

ISBN-13: 9780520249424

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Smilde

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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, 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…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/2/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 277
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

David Smilde is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. He is author, with Margarita Loacute;pez Maya and Keta Stephany, of Protesta y Cultura en Veneauzla: Los Marcos de Accioacute;n Colectiva en 1999.



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Acknowledgments



Beginnings



Making Sense of Cultural Agency



The Venezuelan Context: Confronting La Crisis



Imaginative Rationality



Imagining Social Life I: Confronting Akrasia, Crime, and Violence



Imagining Social Life II: Addressing Personal and Social Issues



Imagining Evangelical Practice



Relational Imagination



The Social Structure of Conversion



Two Lives, Five Years Later



Toward a Relational Pragmatic Theory of Cultural Agency


Epilogue



Status of Evangelical Respondents after Five Years



Methods and Methodology



Quantitative Analysis of Networks and Conversion


Glossary of Spanish Terms


References


Index