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Power in powerlessness : a study of Pentecostal life worlds in urban Chile / by Martin Lindhardt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion in the Americas series ; v. 12.Publication details: Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (270 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004218949
  • 9004218947
  • 9781283470681
  • 1283470683
  • 9786613470683
  • 6613470686
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power in powerlessness.DDC classification:
  • 289.9/40983255 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1644.5.C5 L56 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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