Continuity and Rupture: Pentecostal Practice, Community, and Memory in Pinochet’s Chile
This paper explores the penetration of Pentecostalism’s discursive emphasis on rupture and discontinuity into the everyday lives of believers in authoritarian Chile. I argue that Pentecostal memories of the Pinochet dictatorship reflect a less categorical conceptualization of rupture and reveal the...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Creighton University
2017
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2017, Volume: 19 |
Further subjects: | B
Pentecostalism
B Violence B Memory B Chile B Community |
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Summary: | This paper explores the penetration of Pentecostalism’s discursive emphasis on rupture and discontinuity into the everyday lives of believers in authoritarian Chile. I argue that Pentecostal memories of the Pinochet dictatorship reflect a less categorical conceptualization of rupture and reveal the dense web of connections and identities that adherents utilized to find meaning and solutions to the struggles they faced in daily life. I further argue it is necessary to gauge Pentecostals’ religious identities and cosmologies during the period through a wider historical framework. They were intimately folded into the long history of violence, oppression, and marginalization in which they were embedded. |
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ISSN: | 1522-5658 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
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Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10504/113359 |