Card-Carrying Christians

Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia

Rebecca C. Bartel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38002-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Rebecca C. Bartel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Associate Director for the Center for Latin American Studies at San Diego State University.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction: Aspirational Faith
1. Credit
2. The Soul
3. Deregulating Christianity
4. Inclusion
5. Multiplication
6. Becoming
Conclusion: Necrofinance

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2021
Zusatzinfo	18 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38002-9 / 0520380029
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38002-8 / 9780520380028
Zustand	Neuware