
Protestant 'Sects' and the Spirit of (Anti-)Imperialism
Religious Entanglements in the Americas
Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer(Author)
WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published on 30. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-3-86821-855-8 (ISBN)
Description
Latin America, the United States, religion and politics are ingredients in a beverage of explosive power. The four terms also denote a close entanglement. Historically, this relationship has been shaped primarily by the Protestant mission in Latin America and its Pan-American objectives. But mission was yesterday. Today, under the conflictive conditions of life in Latin America, a new religious style has been molded and, with the Latin migration, the religious field in the United States is changing considerably. The present book, with reference to the Weberian distinction between "sects" and institutionalized religion, renders visible the logic of inter-American entanglements by tracing and interpreting exemplary developments and conflicts. The narrative is framed between two important religious events in 1916 and 2016.
Table of Contents
Preface ........................................................................................ 1
1. Introduction ......................................................................... 3
2. Panama 1916 and What Happened Before ......................... 23
2.1 Panama 1916 ....................................................................... 23
2.2 Puritan Perfectionism: Law, Expansion, and "Liberty" ..... 32
2.3 Puritan Perfectionism: Emotion, Charisma and Power ...... 46
3. Entanglement of Religious Dispositions ............................ 50
3.1 Conditions of Religious Entanglement ............................... 50
3.2 Religious Dispositions:
Transformation through Entanglement ............................... 63
4. The Social Question "from Below" .................................... 89
4.1 Brazil: Society and Church ................................................. 90
4.2 Cochabamba: Church and Society ...................................... 94
5. Wars: Military and Spiritual ............................................... 100
5.1 Spiritual Warfare ................................................................. 100
5.2 Guatemala: City upon a Hill ............................................... 102
5.3 USA: Ideological Battlefield .............................................. 121
6. New Millennium: Prosperity and Migration ...................... 145
6.1 Neo-Liberalism and Prosperity ........................................... 145
6.2 Everyday Border Crossings ................................................ 149
6.3 Promised Land? .................................................................. 161
7 Panama 2016 and the Social Context ................................. 181
7.1 Misunderstanding ................................................................ 181
7.2 Colonization and Refeudalization ....................................... 185
7.3 Panama 2016 ....................................................................... 193
Epilogue: Dynamics of Entanglement ....................................... 207
Works cited ................................................................................ 210
Virtual Interview ........................................................................ 226
Table of Contents
Preface ........................................................................................ 1
1. Introduction ......................................................................... 3
2. Panama 1916 and What Happened Before ......................... 23
2.1 Panama 1916 ....................................................................... 23
2.2 Puritan Perfectionism: Law, Expansion, and "Liberty" ..... 32
2.3 Puritan Perfectionism: Emotion, Charisma and Power ...... 46
3. Entanglement of Religious Dispositions ............................ 50
3.1 Conditions of Religious Entanglement ............................... 50
3.2 Religious Dispositions:
Transformation through Entanglement ............................... 63
4. The Social Question "from Below" .................................... 89
4.1 Brazil: Society and Church ................................................. 90
4.2 Cochabamba: Church and Society ...................................... 94
5. Wars: Military and Spiritual ............................................... 100
5.1 Spiritual Warfare ................................................................. 100
5.2 Guatemala: City upon a Hill ............................................... 102
5.3 USA: Ideological Battlefield .............................................. 121
6. New Millennium: Prosperity and Migration ...................... 145
6.1 Neo-Liberalism and Prosperity ........................................... 145
6.2 Everyday Border Crossings ................................................ 149
6.3 Promised Land? .................................................................. 161
7 Panama 2016 and the Social Context ................................. 181
7.1 Misunderstanding ................................................................ 181
7.2 Colonization and Refeudalization ....................................... 185
7.3 Panama 2016 ....................................................................... 193
Epilogue: Dynamics of Entanglement ....................................... 207
Works cited ................................................................................ 210
Virtual Interview ........................................................................ 226
Reviews / Votes
"Wonderful! A jewel!"Dr. Daniel Chiquete, Pentecostal pastor, Mexico
"The quotes put in the word "sects" are very effective because they allude to what became a defamatory paradigm towards the evangelical churches, particularly those of Pentecostal sign. This contribution will be extremely valuable, because it illuminates a diversity of aspects of the phenomenon of the Protestant "sects", in tangents with the socio-political dimension of imperialism and anti-imperialism in different spaces and moments."
Dr. Hilario Wynarczyk
"A critical and necessary reading of the global North-South relationship and its religious actors."
Prof. Dr. David Mesquiati, Brazil
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Trier
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
392 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86821-855-8 (9783868218558)
Schweitzer Classification