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Author Lindhardt, Martin.

Title Power in powerlessness : a study of Pentecostal life worlds in urban Chile / by Martin Lindhardt
Published Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Series Religion in the Americas series, 1542-1279 ; v. 12
Religion in the Americas series ; v. 12. 1542-1279
Contents Analytical framework: Pentecostalism, charisma, rhetoric, and discourse -- Historical background -- Chilean social space and the positions of Pentecostals -- Pentecostalism as a cultural critique -- Conversion -- When God interferes: ritual, empowerment, and divine presence -- Banal re-enchantment -- Pentecostalism and gender -- Why the Devil Is Satan so important in Chilean Pentecostalism? -- Another end of history: eschatology, conspiracy theories, and global imagination
Summary In this study of a Pentecostal denomination in urban Chile Martin Lindhardt steps back from classical instrumentalist explanations of Pentecostal growth in Latin America and offers a comprehensive analysis of the ritual and quotidian practices through which adherents live their religiosity on an everyday basis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Pentecostalism -- Chile -- Valparaíso
City churches -- Chile -- Valparaíso
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
City churches
Pentecostalism
SUBJECT Valparaíso (Chile) -- Religious life and customs
Subject Chile -- Valparaíso
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004218949
9004218947
9004216006
9789004216006
1283470683
9781283470681
6613470686
9786613470683