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REASON TO BELIEVE: CULTURAL AGENCY IN LATIN AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM

REASON TO BELIEVE: CULTURAL AGENCY IN LATIN AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM by David Smilde, University of California Press, 2007,277 pp., $21.95 paperback

SINCE MID-CENTURY, ABOUT 50 MILLION Latin Americans have converted to Protestantism. Anthropologist David Smilde asks why this is so in the barrios of Caracas, particularly with regard to the many men living there who are converting. Opening the book with the admission that the relationship between agency and belief is extremely complex and poorly understood, Smilde explores what it means to believe in the context of a Latin American evangelical congregation, and in the process attempts to counter the idea that Protestantism offers a form of ...

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