Blood Entanglements: Evangelicals and Gangs in El Salvador - Couverture souple

Offutt, Stephen

 
9780197587317: Blood Entanglements: Evangelicals and Gangs in El Salvador
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0197587313 ISBN 13 : 9780197587317
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2023

Synopsis

In many low-income neighborhoods in El Salvador, two groups have significant influence over the public sphere: gangs and evangelical churches. Members of both groups often belong to the same families, use similar organizational strategies, and engage each other in local marketplaces. Pastors and gang leaders compete for power within communities while informally sharing community governance. Entanglements even occur within formal organizations: Gang members can be found in churches and faith-based organizations, while an evangelical presence exists within prisons and other gang-controlled spaces.

Blood Entanglements shows the importance of religion in gang-controlled neighborhoods in El Salvador through extensive empirical data and the personal stories of people who live there. Stephen Offutt uses the notion of "entanglement" to explain how and why evangelicals have such frequent and often intimate interactions with gangs, which are groups that many evangelicals believe are evil. Entanglement, he shows, also sheds light on how evangelicals engage with Latin American society and social problems more generally. The book concludes with policy recommendations for reducing gang prevalence and violence in areas with a prominent evangelical presence.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Offutt is Associate Professor of Development Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197587313
ISBN 13 
9780197587317
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780197587300: Blood Entanglements: Evangelicals and Gangs in El Salvador

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ISBN 10 :  0197587305 ISBN 13 :  9780197587300
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2023
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