The Embattled but Empowered Community
Comparing Understandings of Spiritual Power in Argentine Popular and Pentecostal Cosmologies
Biographical note
Wilma Wells Davies, PhD (2007) in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Birmingham. She spent nine years teaching Socio-Cultural Anthropology in Argentina and currently is lecturer and tutor at All Nations Christian College, England.
Readership
Social scientists, theologians and missiologists intested in Pentecostalism, popular and folk reliigon, and theology in Latin America, as well as those interested in developments within global Christianity.
Reviews
"Pentecostal healing rituals appear similar to those of popular religion, an essential difference the role of the Pentecostal pastor as a preacher of the Bible (242). This finding alone marks this book as “required reading” for the study of Argentine religious culture and cosmology as well as for Pentecostal studies. [...] [T]he book
is essential for religious and Pentecostal studies."
Roger E. Hedlund, Ph.D., Dharma Deepika January-July 2011, 77.
is essential for religious and Pentecostal studies."
Roger E. Hedlund, Ph.D., Dharma Deepika January-July 2011, 77.
Table of contents
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................1
2. Pentecostalism: Towards an Argentine view ...........................................................10
3. Investigating the Fields of the Lord: The Argentine Religious Field and Historical Context ........45
4. The Embattled Community: Cosmology and Related Practices ..............................78
5. The Empowered Community: Comparing Popular and Pentecostal Understandings Of Spiritual Power..................................................................................................125
6. Missiological Implications for a Gospel of Power .................................................158
7. argentine Pentecostalism and Global Christianity..................................................173
8. Postscript ...................................................................................................................178
9. Appendices .............................................................................................................182
2. Pentecostalism: Towards an Argentine view ...........................................................10
3. Investigating the Fields of the Lord: The Argentine Religious Field and Historical Context ........45
4. The Embattled Community: Cosmology and Related Practices ..............................78
5. The Empowered Community: Comparing Popular and Pentecostal Understandings Of Spiritual Power..................................................................................................125
6. Missiological Implications for a Gospel of Power .................................................158
7. argentine Pentecostalism and Global Christianity..................................................173
8. Postscript ...................................................................................................................178
9. Appendices .............................................................................................................182
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