The embattled but empowered community : comparing understandings of spiritual power in Argentine popular and pentecostal cosmologies / by Wilma Wells Davies.

The global phenomenon of Pentecostal growth continues to interest scholars, particularly its local manifestations. Although previous explanations may have noted the connections between the cultural substrata and local Pentecostal practices, this book concentrates on seeking out the connections. Usin...

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Main Author: Davies, Wilma Wells
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; v. 5.
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Summary:The global phenomenon of Pentecostal growth continues to interest scholars, particularly its local manifestations. Although previous explanations may have noted the connections between the cultural substrata and local Pentecostal practices, this book concentrates on seeking out the connections. Using both extensive field research and reflection on Latin American scholarship, the author proposes that a major link exists at the level of worldview assumptions, particularly in understandings of spiritual power. The book concludes with a reflection on the implications a conversion based on the sear.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 319 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789047440659
904744065X
1282949985
9781282949980
9786612949982
6612949988
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.