Description: Negotiating Respect : Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic, Paperback by Thornton, Brendan Jamal, ISBN 081306449X, ISBN-13 9780813064499, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Caribbean Studies Association Barbara T. Christian Literary AwardNegotiating Respect is an ethnographically rich investigation of Pentecostal Christianity—the Caribbean’s fastest growing religious movement—in the Dominican Republic. Based on fieldwork in a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Jamal Thornton examines the everyday practices of Pentecostal community members and the complex ways in which they negotiate legitimacy, recognition, and spiritual authority within the context of religious pluralism and Catholic cultural supremacy. Probing gender, faith, and identity from an anthropological perspective, he considers in detail the lives of young male churchgoers and their struggles with conversion and life in the streets. 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. Through an exploration of the church and its relationship to barrio institutions like youth gangs and Dominican vodú, he further draws out the meaningful nuances of lived religion providing new insights into the social organization of belief and the significance of Pentecostal growth and popularity globally. The result is a fresh perspective on religious pluralism and contemporary religious and cultural volume in the series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Book Title: Negotiating Respect : Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politi
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Negotiating Respect : Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Subject: Christianity / Protestant, Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, Christianity / Catholic, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Brendan Jamal Thornton
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
