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Author Thornton, Brendan Jamal, author.

Title Negotiating respect : pentecostalism, masculinity, and the politics of spiritual authority in the Dominican Republic / Brendan Jamal Thornton.

Publication Info. Orlando : University Press of Florida, 2016.
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Contents Introduction: Pentecostal cultural change -- Orthodoxy and Christian culture in the Dominican Republic -- Villa Altagracia: el pueblo caliente, el pueblo profetico -- Pluralism, heterodoxy, and Christian hegemony -- Christians apart: being and becoming Pentecostal -- Youth gangs, conversion, and evangelical moral authority -- Residual masculinity and gendered charisma -- Pentecostal social currency and the search for respect -- Conclusion: the politics of Christian identity.
Summary In his study of a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Thornton examines the appeal of Pentecostalism by showing how conversion inverts traditional models of legitimacy, transforming narratives of spiritual authority that, once based on virtue, are now based on redemption.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Catholic Church -- Relations -- Evangelicalism.
Catholic Church.
Relations.
Evangelicalism.
Catholic Church.
Poor -- Religious life -- Dominican Republic -- Villa Altagracia (San Cristóbal) -- History.
Poor -- Religious life.
Dominican Republic -- Villa Altagracia (San Cristóbal)
History.
Poor.
Pentecostalism -- Dominican Republic -- Villa Altagracia (San Cristóbal) -- History.
Pentecostalism.
Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church.
Evangelicalism -- Dominican Republic -- History.
Dominican Republic.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Thornton, Brendan Jamal. Negotiating respect. 9780813061689 0813061687 (DLC) 2015035904 (OCoLC)907448328
ISBN 9780813055749 (electronic book)
0813055741 (electronic book)
9780813051109
081305110X
9780813061689
0813061687

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