A01=Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Author_Kevin Lewis O'Neill
belief system
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central america
christian charity
christian citizenship
christian soldier
christianity
christians
citizenship
counterinsurgency
crime
cultural studies
democracy
diaspora
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god and religion
government and government
guatemala
guatemala city
guatemalan culture
latin american culture
mega churches
neo pentecostal christian practices
political
political studies
politics
postwar
prayer
prayer campaigns
protestantism
religion
religious studies
spiritual warfare
transnational studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780520260634
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Dec 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn't just a belief system - it is a counterinsurgency. Amidst postwar efforts at democratization, multinational mega-churches have conquered street corners and kitchen tables, guiding the faithful to build a sanctified city brick by brick. Drawing on rich interviews and extensive fieldwork, Kevin Lewis O'Neill tracks the culture and politics of one such church, looking at how neo-Pentecostal Christian practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism. Focusing on everyday practices - praying for Guatemala, speaking in tongues for the soul of the nation, organizing prayer campaigns to combat unprecedented levels of crime - O'Neill finds that Christian citizenship has re-politicized the faithful as they struggle to understand what it means to be a believer in a desperately violent Central American city. Innovative, imaginative, conceptually rich, "City of God" reaches across disciplinary borders as it illuminates the highly charged, evolving relationship between religion, democracy, and the state in Latin America.
Kevin Lewis O'Neill is Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto's Department and Centre for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. He is coeditor, with Alex Laban Hinton, of Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation.
