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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