Power, Politics,   and Pentecostals   in Latin America   edited by   Edward L. Cleary   and Hannah W.   Stewart-Gambino           WestviewPress   1997 A Division of Harper Collins Publishers

 

Contents

 

	Acknowledgments	vii	PDF
1	Introduction: Pentecostals, Prominence, and Politics, Edward L. Cleary	1	PDF
2	Pentecostals, Politics, and Public Space in Latin America, Michael Dodson	25	PDF
3	Pentecostalism and Women in Brazil, Cecília Loreto Mariz and Maria das Dores Campos Machado	41	PDF
4	Private Power or Public Power: Pentecostalism, Base Communities, and Gender, Carol Ann Drogus	55	PDF
5	Interchurch Relations: Exclusion, Ecumenism, and the Poor, Guillermo Cook	77	PDF
6	Chilean Pentecostalism: Coming of Age, Edward L. Clearyand Juan Sepidveda	97	PDF
7	Pentecostalism, Conversions, and Politics in Brazil, Rowan Ireland	123	PDF
8	Guatemalan Pentecostals: Something of Their Own, Everett Wilson	139	PDF
9	Bricando el Charco/Jumping the Puddle: A Case Study of Pentecostalism's Journey from Puerto Rico to New York to Allentown, Pennsylvania, Anna Adams	163	PDF
10	The Sound of Tambourines: The Politics of Pentecostal Growth in El Salvador, Philip J. Williams	179	PDF
11	Pentecostals and Evangelicals in Venezuela: Consolidating Gains, Moving in New Directions, Bryan Froehle	201	PDF
12	Latin American Pentecostals: Old Stereotypes and New Challenges,  Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino and Everett Wilson	227	PDF
	About  the Book About  the Editors  and Contributors Index	247 249 251	PDF
	Whole Book as MSWord files in Zip Format: pppladocs.zip	375KB	ZIP

  

Acknowledgments

 

 

        Five years of preparation have engendered a number of debts for editors and contributors. Barbara Ellington has been unfailing in her support and useful advice as senior editor of Westview Press. Dorothy Windish of Lehigh University solved many problems in the course of producing a uniform manuscript.

        Leading scholars in the Pentecostal and charismatic communities assisted in shaping new research and in assessing past efforts. These include Peter Hocken, secretary of the Society for Pentecostal Studies; Ken Gill, associate director of the Billy Graham Center Library; Gary B. McGee, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary; Cecil M. Roebeck and Killian O'Donnell, O.S.B., cochairs, International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue; Donald Gelpi, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union; and Cornelia Butler Flora, Iowa State University. Jeffrey Gros, F.S.C., U.S. Catholic Conference; David Barrett, editor of the World Christian Encyclopedia; and Samuel Escobar, Eastern Baptist Seminary, added insights into global trends.

        Lehigh University, Providence College, and the Yale University Center for International and Area Studies furnished essential support at several stages of research, travel, and writing. The Overseas Missions Study Center and its director, Dr. Gerald Anderson, Calvin College's Center for Christian Scholarship, Eugene TeSalle and Vanderbilt University, and Thomas Skidmore and Brown University hosted small conferences on Latin American religion that greatly aided an interchange of ideas that was useful in the shaping of this book.

        At the core of the editors' and contributors' lives are our communities and families, which have sustained us and made this volume possible.

 

Edward L. Cleary Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino