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Evangelicalism and Masculinity: Faith and Gender in El Salvador

Evangelicalism and Masculinity: Faith and Gender in El Salvador
Author: Jose Leonardo Santos
Price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 073916869X
ISBN-13: 9780739168691
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The explosion of the Evangelical movement in Latin America beginning in the last half of the 20th century has changed the face of a continent. Many men have redefined themselves through a religious conversion to Evangelicalism, which challenges notions of machismo. This book explores why they would choose to do so. While they abandon drinking, promiscuity, domestic violence, and aggression, Evangelical converts maintain a strict set of gender roles, which they perceived as a divine mandate. This dramatic change is made possible through the device of an Evangelical Worldview, experienced and lived as cosmic narrative that obligates a Christian masculinity.