More than opium : an anthropological approach to Latin American and Caribbean Pentecostal praxis /

More than opium : an anthropological approach to Latin American and Caribbean Pentecostal praxis / [print] edited by Barbara Boudewijnse, Andre Droogers, and Frans Kamsteeg. - Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, (c)1998. - ix, 327 pages ; 22 cm. - Studies in evangelicalism ; no. 14 . - Studies in evangelicalism ; no. 14. .

Rev., updated, and enlarged translation of: Algo mas que opio.



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. -- 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.



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Pentecostalism--Latin America.
Pentecostalism--Caribbean Area.

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