Born Again in Brazil : The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty /

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"Outstanding history of growth of Pentecostal churches in Belem, Pará, 1910-93, focuses on Assemblies of God. Based on church administrative documents and interviews with converts, work stresses experience of faith cures of socially and biologically 'sick' slum dwellers as major moti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chesnut, R. Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Armut.
Pfingstbewegung.
Poor > Brazil.
Spiritual healing > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Pentecostal churches > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Armoede.
Pinksterbeweging.
Pfingstbewegung
Armut
Spiritual healing.
Poor > Religious life.
Pentecostal churches.
11.55 Protestantism.
Pauvres > Bresil > Vie religieuse.
Guerison par la foi > Bresil > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Églises pentecôtistes > Bresil > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Poor > Religious life > Brazil.
Brasilien.
Brazil > Church history > 20th century.
Brasilien
Brazil.
Bresil > Histoire religieuse > 20e siecle.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. The Spirit of Brazil. 1. A Prophetic History
  • pt. II. Exorcising the Demons of Poverty. 2. The Preconversion World of Illness. 3. Conversion: Crisis, Cure, and Affiliation. 4. Health Maintenance: Spiritual Ecstasy and Mutual Aid. 5. Health Maintenance through Ideology and Morality
  • pt. III. The Church as Institution. 6. Authoritarian Assembly: Church Organization. 7. From the Assembly of Saints to the Legislative Assembly: Pentecostal Politics in Para.

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