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Negotiating respect : pentecostalism, masculinity, and the politics of spiritual authority in the Dominican Republic / Brendan Jamal Thornton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Latin American and Caribbean Arts and CulturePublisher: Orlando : University Press of Florida, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813055749
  • 0813055741
  • 9780813051109
  • 081305110X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Negotiating respect.DDC classification:
  • 270.82 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1644.5.D65 N44 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Pentecostal cultural change -- Orthodoxy and Christian culture in the Dominican Republic -- Villa Altagracia: el pueblo caliente, el pueblo profetico -- Pluralism, heterodoxy, and Christian hegemony -- Christians apart: being and becoming Pentecostal -- Youth gangs, conversion, and evangelical moral authority -- Residual masculinity and gendered charisma -- Pentecostal social currency and the search for respect -- Conclusion: the politics of Christian identity.
Summary: In his study of a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Thornton examines the appeal of Pentecostalism by showing how conversion inverts traditional models of legitimacy, transforming narratives of spiritual authority that, once based on virtue, are now based on redemption.
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Introduction: Pentecostal cultural change -- Orthodoxy and Christian culture in the Dominican Republic -- Villa Altagracia: el pueblo caliente, el pueblo profetico -- Pluralism, heterodoxy, and Christian hegemony -- Christians apart: being and becoming Pentecostal -- Youth gangs, conversion, and evangelical moral authority -- Residual masculinity and gendered charisma -- Pentecostal social currency and the search for respect -- Conclusion: the politics of Christian identity.

In his study of a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Thornton examines the appeal of Pentecostalism by showing how conversion inverts traditional models of legitimacy, transforming narratives of spiritual authority that, once based on virtue, are now based on redemption.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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