A01=Jose Leonardo Santos
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Author_Jose Leonardo Santos
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Catholicism
Conversion
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El Salvador
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Evangelicalism
Fundamentalism
Gender
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Latin America Religion
Latin American Studies
Machismo
Masculinity
Narrative
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Religion
Religion and Gender
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Product details
- ISBN 9780739168684
- Weight: 372g
- Dimensions: 157 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2012
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The explosion of the Evangelical movement in Latin America beginning in the last half of the 20th century has changed the face of a continent. Many men have redefined themselves through a religious conversion to Evangelicalism, which challenges notions of machismo. This book explores why they would choose to do so. While they abandon drinking, promiscuity, domestic violence, and aggression, Evangelical converts maintain a strict set of gender roles, which they perceived as a divine mandate. This dramatic change is made possible through the device of an Evangelical Worldview, experienced and lived as cosmic narrative that obligates a Christian masculinity.
Jose Leonardo Santos is assistant professor of social science at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
