Acknowledgments
Part I. The Spirit of Brazil
1. A Prophetic History
Part II. Exorcising the Demons of Poverty
2. The Preconversion World of Illness
3. Conversion: Crisis, Cure, and Affiliation
4. Health Maintenance: Spiritual Ecstasy and Mutual Aid
5. Health Maintenance through Ideology and Morality
Part III. The Church as Institution
6. Authoritarian Assembly: Church Organization
7. From the Assembly of Saints to the Legislative Assembly:
Pentecostal Politics in Para
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
R. ANDREW CHESNUT received his Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently a lecturer there.
Professor Chesnut's succinct study should be required reading for
all scholars of comparative religion, intellectual and social
history, and Latin American culture. The fruit of an intensive
field period of field research in the early 1990s...this volume
manages in clear, unredundant, and highly readable style to
synthesize the twentieth century history of four of the main
Pentecostal denominations...of Brazil as well as exploring in depth
the infrastructure and external politics of the largest of these
denominations.
*Luso-Brazilian Review*
This study makes a distinctive contribution to the understanding of
these Pentecostal congregations, their members, and their leaders.
Although the focus of this study is Betim, Brazil, the dynamic it
describes and analyzes is pertinent to similar groups condemned to
poverty throughout Latin America.
*Journal of Church and State*
An exciting and provocative book! Without sensationalizing, Chesnut
brings us to an understanding of the spiritual and emotional
profundity of conversion.
*Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas,
Austin*
An engaging case study of one of the most successful Pentecostal
bodies in Latin America. Importantly, it focuses on what most Latin
American Pentecostals doùpersonal healing.
*author of Is Latin America Turning Protestant?*
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