Negotiating Respect
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Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic(Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture)

Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic(Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture)


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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.

About the Author :
Brendan Jamal Thornton is an anthropologist and assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Review :
"A much-needed ethnography that reorientates cultural understandings of Christianity and Dominican culture in poor, marginalized, and discriminated communities."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "Adds nuance to the literature on identity and religion in Latin America."--Journal of Anthropological Research "Rich and insightful. . . . Provides valuable insight into how religion, masculinity and economic changes are reshaping specific places whilst being tied into vast, global movements."--Marginalia "A welcome and overdue ethnographic account of Christian Pentecostal 'evangélicos' in poor barrios of the Dominican Republic. . . . Thornton unpacks the very unlikely and unspoken alliance forged between urban gangs and Protestant churches."--Anthropos "Vivid biographical sketches and interview material provide compelling evidence of [a] gendered ideal of conversion and its social consequences."--New West Indian Guide "An accessible book for those who are new to the fields of Latin American studies, Pentecostalism, or religious studies in general. Negotiating Respect demonstrates the value of ethnographic studies of Pentecostalism, as they continue to provide important insights for the study of religion."--Reading Religion "Thornton convincingly demonstrates the power and rootedness of Pentecostalism in the tangible benefits of social efficacy and 'respect' while relativizing the religious movement within a wider array of Dominican, and more broadly Caribbean, religious practices."--AnthroCyBib "Offers a rich and insightful ethnographic contribution to our understanding of Pentecostalism and masculinity in the Dominican Republic, and it provides valuable insight into how religion, masculinity and economic changes are reshaping specific places whilst being tied into vast, global movements."--LA Review of Books


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780813061689
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Series Title: Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture
  • Sub Title: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0813061687
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 643 gr


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