Lived Religion, Pentecostalism, and Social Activism in Authoritarian Chile

Giving Life to the Faith
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-45370-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Religion in the Americas

In Giving Life to the Faith, Joseph Florez explores Pentecostal social engagement as it was folded into the extraordinary circumstances of everyday life during the Chilean military dictatorship (1973 - 1990). Florez traces Pentecostal activism, commonly portrayed as politically aloof or inert, through the life stories of the believers themselves and uncovers the logics of survival, resistance, and belief that sustained their work in the face of ubiquitous state repression.

Using archival materials and Pentecostal oral histories, Florez brings Pentecostals’ religious innovations and improvisations to the forefront of discussion and challenges observers of Latin American Pentecostalism to reconsider normative interpretations of the world’s fastest growing religious movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Florez, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Florez, Ph.D. (2018), University of Cambridge, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Bakersfield. He has published articles on Pentecostalism in Chile in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and the Journal of Religion and Society.