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Author Smilde, David.

Title Reason to believe : cultural agency in Latin American evangelicalism / David Smilde.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The anthropology of Christianity ; 3
Anthropology of Christianity ; 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.
Contents Beginnings -- Imaginative rationality -- Relational imagination.
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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Subject Evangelicalism -- Venezuela -- Caracas.
Evangelicalism.
Venezuela -- Caracas.
Pentecostalism -- Venezuela -- Caracas -- Case studies.
Pentecostalism.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Christianity and culture -- Venezuela -- Caracas.
Christianity and culture.
Men -- Religious life.
Men -- Religious life.
Caracas (Venezuela) -- Church history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
Subject Men.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Smilde, David. Reason to believe. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520249424 0520249429 (DLC) 2006037487 (OCoLC)76481424
ISBN 9780520940147 (electronic book)
0520940148 (electronic book)
9781429482271 (electronic book)
1429482273 (electronic book)
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9781282358669