Born Again in Brazil
by Chesnut, R. AndrewFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-09-01
Publisher(s): 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
Author Biography
R. Andrew Chesnut is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Spirit of Brazil | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| A Prophetic History | p. 25 |
| Exorcising the Demons of Poverty | |
| The Preconversion World of Illness | p. 51 |
| Conversion: Crisis, Cure, and Affiliation | p. 73 |
| Health Maintenance: Spiritual Ecstasy and Mutual Aid | p. 92 |
| Health Maintenance through Ideology and Morality | p. 108 |
| The Church as Institution | |
| Authoritarian Assembly: Church Organization | p. 129 |
| From the Assembly of Saints to the Legislative Assembly: Pentecostal Politics in Para | p. 145 |
| Conclusion | p. 167 |
| Notes | p. 175 |
| References | p. 183 |
| Index | p. 191 |
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