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Homies and Hermanos - God and Gangs in Central America (Hardcover, New)
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Homies and Hermanos - God and Gangs in Central America (Hardcover, New)
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Why would a gun-wielding, tattoo-bearing "homie" trade in la vida
loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical
hermano (brother in Christ)? To answer this question, Robert
Brenneman interviewed sixty-three former gang members from the
"Northern Triangle" of Central America--Guatemala, El Salvador, and
Honduras--most of whom left their gang for evangelicalism. Unlike
in the United States, membership in a Central American gang is
hasta la morgue. But the most common exception to the "morgue rule"
is that of conversion or regular participation in an evangelical
church. Do gang members who weary of their dangerous lifestyle
simply make a rational choice to opt for evangelical religion?
Brenneman finds this is only partly the case, for many others
report emotional conversions that came unexpectedly, when they
found themselves overwhelmed by a sermon, a conversation, or a
prayer service. An extensively researched and gritty account,
Homies and Hermanos sheds light on the nature of youth violence, of
religious conversion, and of evangelical churches in Central
America.
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