Power, Politics,
and Pentecostals
in Latin America
*
edited by
Edward L. Cleary
and Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino
WestviewPress
A Division of HarperCollinsPublisbers
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
1
Introduction: Pentecostals, Prominence, and Politics,
Edward L. Cleary
1
2
Pentecostals, Politics, and Public Space in Latin America,
Michael Dodson
25
3
Pentecostalism and Women in Brazil, Cecília Loreto Mariz
and Maria das Dores Campos Machado
41
4
Private Power or Public Power: Pentecostalism, Base
Communities, and Gender, Carol Ann Drogus
55
5
Interchurch Relations: Exclusion, Ecumenism, and
the Poor, Guillermo Cook
77
6
Chilean Pentecostalism: Coming of Age, Edward L. Cleary
and Juan Sepidveda
97
7
Pentecostalism, Conversions, and Politics in Brazil,
Rowan Ireland
123
8
Guatemalan Pentecostals: Something of Their Own,
Everett Wilson
139
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
10
The Sound of Tambourines: The Politics of Pentecostal
Growth in El Salvador, Philip J. Williams
179
11
Pentecostals and Evangelicals in Venezuela: Consolidating
Gains, Moving in New Directions, Bryan Froehle
201
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12
Latin American Pentecostals: Old Stereotypes
and New Challenges, Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino
and Everett Wilson
227
About the Book
247
About the Editors and Contributors
249
Index
251
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