Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism (The Anthropology of Christianity)

Contents......Page 8
Note on Translations and Names......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Part I. Beginnings......Page 18
1 Making Sense of Cultural Agency......Page 20
2 The Venezuelan Context: Confronting La Crisis......Page 33
Part II. Imaginative Rationality......Page 62
3 Imagining Social Life I: Confronting Akrasia, Crime, and Violence......Page 72
4 Imagining Social Life II: Addressing Personal and Social Issues......Page 94
5 Imagining Evangelical Practice......Page 117
Part III. Relational Imagination......Page 170
6 The Social Structure of Conversion......Page 174
7 Two Lives, Five Years Later......Page 201
8 Toward a Relational Pragmatic Theory of Cultural Agency......Page 225
Epilogue......Page 240
Appendix A. Status of Evangelical Respondents after Five Years......Page 242
Appendix B. Methods and Methodology......Page 245
Appendix C. Quantitative Analysis of Networks and Conversion......Page 254
Glossary of Spanish Terms......Page 260
References......Page 262
Index......Page 276