Books

English

52/6/3

1998

Boudewijnse, Barbara ; Droogers, A. F. ; Kamsteeg, Frans
More by Creator     Search Periodicals Using this Creator

More than opium : an anthropological approach to Latin American and Caribbean Pentecostal praxis $c / edited by Barbara Boudewijnse, André Droogers, and Frans Kamsteeg

Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1998.

ix, 327 p. ; 23 cm.

Rev., updated, and enl. translation of: Algo más que opio./ Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-312) and indexes.

Studies in Evangelicalism ; no. 14

Contents: Paradoxical views on a paradoxical religion : models for the explanation of Pentecostal expansion in Brazil and Chile -- The modern, the magic, and the Ludic : the Pentecostal view toward an insecure life, an Argentinean case -- Pentecostal women in Chile : a case study in Iquique -- Pastors, lay people, and the growth of Pentecostalism : a case study from Arequipa, Peru -- A farewell to Mary? : women, Pentecostal faith, and the Roman Catholic Church on Curacao, N.A.

Contents (cont'd): Market behavior among Brazilian consumers of the divine : public opinion regarding Pentecostalism and Afro-American religiosity in the provincial town of Alagoinhas (Bahia) -- Rural Pentecostalism in Pernambuco (Brazil) : more than a symbolic protest -- Family, sexuality, and family planning : a comparative study of Pentecostals and Charismatic Catholics in Rio de Janeiro -- Deliverance and ethics : an analysis of the discourse of Pentecostals who have recovered from alcoholism -- Charismatic renewal and base communities : the religious participation of women in a Brazilian parish.

Pentecostalism--Latin America.
More by Subject     Search Periodicals Using this Subject

Pentecostalism--Caribbean Area.
More by Subject     Search Periodicals Using this Subject

08/05/2008