In this Book
- Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University Press of Florida
summary
Negotiating Respect is an ethnographically rich investigation of Pentecostal Christianity--the Caribbean’s fastest growing religious movement--in the contemporary Dominican Republic.
Within the context of urban poverty in a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Jamal Thornton considers the role of religious identity in the lives of young male churchgoers who navigate conversion as a transformative means of status acquisition, authority, and transition out of gang life. Thornton shows that conversion offers both spiritual and practical social value because it provides a strategic avenue for prestige and an acceptable way to transcend personal history.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780813055749
Related ISBN(s)
9780813061689, 9780813064499
MARC Record
OCLC
932622521
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No