Card-Carrying Christians : Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia
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| Title: | Card-Carrying Christians : Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia |
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| Description: | In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price. |
| Authors: | Rebecca C. Bartel |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Evangelicalism--Social aspects--Colombia |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, RELIGION / Christian Church / Growth |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price. |
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| ISBN: | 9780520380011 9780520380028 9780520977068 |
