New faces of God in Latin America : emerging forms of vernacular Christianity
Virginia Garrard
Bok Engelsk 2020
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| Omfang | x, 289 sider
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| Opplysninger | "This monograph is a historically-infused study of the intersection of local encounters with global religion (Christianity) in Latin America. Using a mixture of deep archival research and ethnographic methods, this book discusses how everyday people inscribe supernormal spirit power (in a variety of guises) with the ability to provide alternative sources of authority, and validate "otros saberes" ("other knowledges" or epistemologies, within the context of specific cultures to create order and meaning in a chaotic late-capitalist universe. This work about emerging forms of "new" Christianity in Latin America-a Christianity that is as utilitarian as it is miraculous, and as quotidian as it is supernatural. Pluralism is on the rise in Latin America, and there are perhaps more expressions of non-Christian religions present in the region than at any other time in Latin America's history, but that is not what this book is about, as Christianity, in its many forms, completely dwarfs all other religious practices there. This a Christianity full of enchantment, infused with epiphenomenal Spirit power-which is the birthright and legacy of Christianity and its derivatives from the time of its inception. Yet it is indeed "new" in that is innately modern in a very specific sense, directly empowering believers with a repertoire of strategies to survive, even thrive, in a challenging and often hostile modern world. This book, in large measure, is an effort to locate Latin America within a field known by some a s the "history of non-Western Christianity," although it is neither a conventional history book per se, nor a book is it about missionaries or theology. It follows a line of scholarship that examines Christianity as a global, or "world" as opposed to a "Western" religion. This focuses not on Western missionary endeavors and colonized mentalities, but on the experience, perceptions, and adaptations of those who adopt Christianity outside the context of missionary or other colonizing projects. The chapters of this book engage in one way or another with the intersection of culture and spirit-filled religion, with an eye to how those interactions help frame an alternative, religious modernity. Here, I use culture as both a heuristic lens and as a variable within the equation. I argue that culture helps us understand how people engage with and reconfigure global religious flows within their own imaginations and for their own parochial uses. I also suggest that these innovations themselves then eddy into and form deep channels into the religious currents that initially fed them"--
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| Geografisk emneord | Latin America - Church history . - Latin-Amerika : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01792
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| ISBN | 9780197529270
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