City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala (The

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City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala (The Anthropology of Christianity)

In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn't just a belief system--it is a counterinsurgency. Amidst postwar efforts at democratization, multinational mega-churches have conquered street corners and kitchen tables, guiding the faithful to build a sanctified city brick by brick. Drawing on rich interviews and extensive fieldwork, Kevin Lewis O'Neill tracks the culture and politics of one such church, looking at how neo-Pentecostal Christian practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism. Focusing on everyday practices--praying for Guatemala, speaking in tongues for the soul of the nation, organizing prayer campaigns to combat unprecedented levels of crime--O'Neill finds that Christian citizenship has re-politicized the faithful as they struggle to understand what it means to be a believer in a desperately violent Central American city. Innovative, imaginative, conceptually rich, City of God reaches across disciplinary borders as it illuminates the highly charged, evolving relationship between religion, democracy, and the state in Latin America.

Country	USA
Author	Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520945135
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	310
PublicationDate	2009-12-22
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2009-11-29
Studio	University of California Press

City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala (The Anthropology of Christianity)

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