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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Contradictions in a Feminist View of Evangelical Women | |
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| More Contradictions: Colombian Evangelicalism and the Anthropology of Religion | |
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| Research Questions: The Domestication of Men? | |
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| Data Collection | |
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| The Different Levels of Meaning in the Conversion Experience | |
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| Gender Analysis in Conversion Studies | |
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| Plan of the Study | |
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| The Evangelical Movement in Colombia | |
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| Early Missions | |
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| The Contemporary Picture: The Size of the Movement | |
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| The Meaning of "Evangelical" in Colombia | |
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| Religion and Politics | |
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| The Power of the Roman Catholic Church in Colombia: The Concordat | |
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| Constitutional Reform and the Concordat | |
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| Liberals and Conservatives and the Separation of Church and State | |
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| La Violencia | |
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| The Effect of La Violencia on Evangelicals in El Cocuy | |
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| El Cocuy: Colombian Evangelicalism on the Community Level | |
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| Rural Life in Urban Colombia | |
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| Choice of El Cocuy as the Rural Field Site | |
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| Description of the Town | |
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| Early History of El Cocuy | |
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| Religion in El Cocuy | |
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| The Impact of Foreign Missionaries in El Cocuy: The Lutheran Church of Our Savior | |
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| Domestic Abdication, Individualism, and Machismo | |
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| Defining Machismo: Contradictions and Consistencies | |
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| Domestic Abdication | |
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| Psychological Approaches: Machismo and Male Dominance | |
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| Change over Time | |
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| Machismo, Proletarianization, and Individualism | |
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| Colombian Sex and Gender Roles and the Family | |
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| Sex Roles and Familial Roles | |
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| The Consequences of Machismo for Women's Household Roles | |
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| Conjugal Roles and Status Consciousness | |
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| Case History: Rosalinda | |
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| Colombian Evangelicalism from the Household Out | |
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| Gender Roles and Marital Roles in the Conversion Process | |
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| The Economic Effects of Gender Role Transformation | |
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| The Feminine Ethos of Evangelical Religion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Colombian Evangelicalism as a "Strategic" Form of Female Collective Action | |
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| Progress, Modernization, and Culture Change | |
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| Women, the Prosperity Ethic, and the Household Writ Large | |
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| Appendix: Fieldwork with Colombian Evangelicals | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |