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Negotiating Respect

Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic

by Brendan Jamal Thornton

  • Hardback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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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.
Negotiating Respect and Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic
Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican RepublicNegotiating Respect

  • Author

    Brendan Jamal Thornton

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University Press of Florida

  • Published

    February 2016

  • Weight

    595g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813061689

  • ISBN-10

    0813061687

  • Eden Code

    4361457

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