| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Part 1: Approaches to Conversion; Chapter 1: Understanding Conversion in the Americas; Chapter 2: Analyzing Conversion in Latin America: Theoretical Questions, Methodological Dilemmas, and Comparative Data from Argentina and Brazil; Chapter 3: Conversion Careers in Latin America: Entering and Leaving Church among Pentecostals, Catholics, and Mormons; Chapter 4: Specialized Spirits: Conversion and the Products of Pneumacentric Religion in Latin America's Free Market of Faith |
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Chapter 5: Relational Analysis of Religious Conversion and Social Change: Networks and Publics in Latin American EvangelicalismPart 2: Conversion to What?; Chapter 6: Conversion from Afro-Brazilian Religions to Neo-Pentecostalism: Opening New Horizons of the Possible; Chapter 7: Conversion to Afro-Brazilian Religions in Buenos Aires: Convincing Interactions; Chapter 8: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Revitalization Movements and Conversion; Chapter 9: Conversion to Native Spirituality in the Andes: From |
| Summary |
In the last several decades, U.S. women?s history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women?s history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women?s lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how conceptions |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Conversion.
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Conversion
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Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Religion
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| Subject |
Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cleary, Edward
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| ISBN |
9780813544021 |
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0813544025 |
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