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9780813524054

BORN AGAIN IN BRAZIL

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813524054

  • ISBN10:

    0813524059

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-09-01
  • Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
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Summary

"For vivid insight, lively narrative and persuasive use of life histories, this is o major piece of ethnography". -- David Martin, University of London

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
PART I The Spirit of Brazil 3(48)
Introduction 3(22)
1 A Prophetic History
25(26)
PART II Exorcising the Demons of Poverty 51(78)
2 The Preconversion World of Illness
51(22)
3 Conversion: Crisis, Cure, and Affiliation
73(19)
4 Health Maintenance: Spiritual Ecstasy and Mutual Aid
92(16)
5 Health Maintenance through Ideology and Morality
108(21)
PART III The Church as Institution 129(38)
6 Authoritarian Assembly: Church Organization
129(16)
7 From the Assembly of Saints to the Legislative Assembly: Pentecostal Politics in Para
145(22)
Conclusion 167(8)
Notes 175(8)
References 183(8)
Index 191

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