Religion in the Americas – serie
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Religion and Education among Latinos in New York City
Häftad, 2005
1129 kr
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This volume explores the role of religion in the educational achievement of Hispanics. In particular, it assesses the influence of religion on parental involvement in children's educational experiences. The book compares Catholic and Protestant parents' opinions and practices against the backdrop …
Spiritual Mapping in the United States and Argentina, 1989-2005: A Geography of Fear
Av René Holvast
Inbunden, 2008
2218 kr
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Spiritual Mapping is a U.S. Evangelical and Neo-Pentecostal movement (1989-2005), which developed its own religious technique to wage a 'spiritual' war against unseen non-human beings. These 'spirits' were identified along the lines of geographical territories and put on a map, whence 'Spiritual …
Latin American Evangelical Theology in the 1970's
The Golden Decade
Inbunden, 2009
2400 kr
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The story of Latin American evangelicals doing theology is mostly unknown. In the 1970s there was an important development with the formation of the Latin American Theological Fraternity (FTL). This group spearheaded the theological production in Latin America, marking the beginning of a critical …
Winds from the North
Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement
Inbunden, 2010
2464 kr
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Much of the scholarly focus on early twentieth-century Pentecostalism is dominated by the origins debates of the United States. The polarization between those who argue for Parham’s theological contribution or Seymour’s African American experiential contribution is well known. Beyond these debates …
French-Speaking Protestants in Canada
Historical Essays
Inbunden, 2011
2540 kr
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Although French-speaking Canadians have largely been Roman Catholic, there has been a small, but significant Protestant minority among them for much of their history. Several important studies on these Protestants have appeared in French or in short articles in English, but there is no broader …
Power in Powerlessness
A Study of Pentecostal Life Worlds in Urban Chile
Inbunden, 2012
2387 kr
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Exploring the ritual and everyday religious practices through which Pentecostal life worlds unfold this book breaks new ground in the study of Latin American and global Pentecostalism. In addition to asking the familiar question of why many lower class Latin Americans convert to Pentecostalism, the …
New Model of Religious Conversion
Beyond Network Theory and Social Constructivism
Inbunden, 2014
2387 kr
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Based on the analysis of 52 conversion narratives to various religious groups, A New Model of Religious Conversion utilizes case studies for comparison of converts' backgrounds, network influence, and conversion narratives. The author convincingly illustrates a "fit" between the converts' …
Middle Class Pentecostalism in Argentina
Inappropriate Spirits
Av Jens Köhrsen
Inbunden, 2016
2479 kr
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In Middle-Class Pentecostalism in Argentina: Inappropriate Spirits Jens Köhrsen offers an intriguing account of how the middle class relates to Latin America's most vibrant religious movement. Based on pervasive field research, this study suggests that Pentecostalism stands in tension with the …
New Age in Latin America
Popular Variations and Ethnic Appropriations
Av Angela Renée, de la Torre Castellanos
Inbunden, 2016
3222 kr
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This book is at the crossroads where a New Age sensibility, advancing like an ecumen of worldwide spirituality without national, cultural, or ecclesiastical frontiers, meets Latin America's syncretic religions, practiced by groups of people wiht African or indigenous roots or developed from the …
Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935)
Faith, Workers and Race before Liberation Theology
Av Ricardo Daniel Cubas Ramacciotti
Inbunden, 2017
2047 kr
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In The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935) Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularisation of the State and society whilst offering a fresh appraisal of the emergence of Social Catholicism and its …
Reflexive Religion: The New Age in Brazil and Beyond
Inbunden, 2018
2257 kr
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Reflexive Religion: The New Age in Brazil and Beyond examines the rise of alternative spiritualities in contemporary Brazil. Masterfully combining late modern theory with multi-site ethnographies of the New Age, it explains how traditional religion is being transformed by processes of reflexivity, …
