Negotiating Respect : Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic PDF
by Brendan Jamal Thornton
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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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- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University Press of Florida
- Publication Date:16/02/2016
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- ISBN:9780813055749
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University Press of Florida
- Publication Date:16/02/2016
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- ISBN:9780813055749