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The Rise of Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador - From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Spirit (Hardcover)
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The Rise of Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador - From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Spirit (Hardcover)
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El Salvador has experienced a dramatic religious transformation
over the past half-century.In what was once an almost exclusively
Catholic nation, more than 35 percent of the people are now
evangelical Protestants, mostly identified as charismatic or
Pentecostal. While having some roots in Protestant missions from
North America and Europe, the religious renaissance overtaking El
Salvador is both homegrown and closely related to the nation's
social, cultural, and economic upheavals. Since the end of the
Salvadoran Civil War, the traditional social orderawhich was
established in colonial times, ruled by elites, enforced by the
military, and supported by the Churchahas been overturned. Once a
world of haciendas, plantations, and old merchant firms, El
Salvador is now home to new factories, shopping malls, fast food
restaurants, and call centers. Modernization has brought new ideas
tooaabout asserting individual rights and making choices, forming
communities, voting in elections, consuming material goods,
employing technology, and engaging with global culture. The Rise of
Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador explores how this vast social
transformation has opened the gates to runaway religious creativity
and competition. In weaving together the lively and complex story,
author Timothy Wadkins employs the scholarly tools of historical
reconstruction, theological analysis, and ethnographic interviews,
as well as the results of a pioneering national religious survey.
The outcome is a comprehensive and detailed picture of El
Salvador's religious renaissance against the backdrop of El
Salvador's fitful path toward modernization and democratization.
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