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adaptive education
African-descendant
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authorized heritage
Belize
Belizean independence
Belizean Kriol
British Colonialism
British Honduras
Caribbean
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citizenship
Colonial Race
community
community-based research
cultural education
Cultural Identity
development rhetoric
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Ethnography
heritage studies
history
Kriol resistance
Latin America
marginalized heritage
Maya archaeology
Public archaeology
public history
race and ethnicity
Social life and customs
tourism
vernacular heritage
World politics
Product details
- ISBN 9780813061689
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Negotiating Respect is an ethnographically rich investigation of Pentecostal Christianity-the Caribbean’s fastest growing religious movement-in the contemporary Dominican Republic.
Within the context of urban poverty in a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Jamal Thornton considers the role of religious identity in the lives of young male churchgoers who navigate conversion as a transformative means of status acquisition, authority, and transition out of gang life. Thornton shows that conversion offers both spiritual and practical social value because it provides a strategic avenue for prestige and an acceptable way to transcend personal history.
Within the context of urban poverty in a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Jamal Thornton considers the role of religious identity in the lives of young male churchgoers who navigate conversion as a transformative means of status acquisition, authority, and transition out of gang life. Thornton shows that conversion offers both spiritual and practical social value because it provides a strategic avenue for prestige and an acceptable way to transcend personal history.
Brendan Jamal Thornton is an anthropologist and assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
