Born again in Brazil : the Pentecostal boom and the pathogens of poverty / R. Andrew Chesnut.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.Description: x, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0813524059 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813524067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BX 8762 .A45  B625 1997
Review: "Outstanding history of growth of Pentecostal churches in Bele��?�m, Para��?�, 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 motive for conversions. Also discusses church leaders in politics. Superb first-person accounts of spiritual experience make this an excellent introduction to Latin American Pentecostalism for students"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.

"Outstanding history of growth of Pentecostal churches in Bele��?�m, Para��?�, 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 motive for conversions. Also discusses church leaders in politics. Superb first-person accounts of spiritual experience make this an excellent introduction to Latin American Pentecostalism for students"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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