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Author Smilde, David.

Title Reason to believe : cultural agency in Latin American evangelicalism / David Smilde
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) : illustrations
Series The anthropology of Christianity ; 3
Anthropology of Christianity ; 3
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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index
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Subject Christianity and culture -- Venezuela -- Caracas.
Evangelicalism -- Venezuela -- Caracas.
Men -- Religious life.
Pentecostalism -- Venezuela -- Caracas -- Case studies.
SUBJECT Caracas (Venezuela) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79097478 -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005023
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 2006037487
ISBN 0520940148 electronic bk
1429482273 electronic bk
9780520940147 electronic bk
9781429482271 electronic bk