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anthropology
Author_Kevin Lewis O'Neill
born again
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central america
central american security
christian piety
christianity
church missions
crime
criminology
death squads
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ethnographic research
ex gang member
faith based programs
gang prevention programs
gang violence
gangs
geopolitical
god and religion
good christian living
governmentality
guatemala
incarceration
life and death
lynch mobs
overcrowded prisons
redemption
regional security
religion
religious influences
secular security projects
social suffering
spiritual
Product details
- ISBN 9780520278486
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"I'm not perfect," Mateo confessed, "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again, ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City - amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads - millions of dollars empower church missions, faith-based programs, and seemingly secular security projects to prevent gang violence through the practice of Christian piety. With Guatemala increasingly defined by both God and gangs, Secure the Soul details an emerging strategy of geopolitical significance: regional security by way of good Christian living.
Kevin Lewis O'Neill is Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto. He is the author of City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala.
