Negotiating respect [electronic resource] :Pentecostalism, masculinity, and the politics of spiritual authority in the Dominican Republic / Brendan Jamal Thornton.
By: Thornton, Brendan Jamal.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813055749.Subject(s): Poor -- Religious life -- Dominican Republic -- Villa Altagracia (San Cristóbal) -- History | Pentecostalism -- Dominican Republic -- Villa Altagracia (San Cristóbal) -- History | Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church | Evangelicalism -- Dominican Republic -- History | Catholic Church -- Relations -- EvangelicalismGenre/Form: Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available: "This book is a part of the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture publication initiative, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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