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Evangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America, if not the world. For converts, it emphasizes self-discipline and provides a network of communal support, which together have helped many overcome substance abuse, avoid crime and violence, and resolve relationship problems. But can people simply decide to believe in a religion because of the benefits it reportedly delivers? Based on extensive fieldwork among Pentecostal men in Caracas, Venezuela, this rich urban ethnography seeks an explanation for the explosion of Evangelical Protestantism, unraveling the cultural and personal dynamics of Evangelical conversion to show how and why these men make the choice to convert, and how they come to have faith in a new system of beliefs and practices.

Men --- Christianity and culture --- Pentecostalism --- Evangelicalism --- Evangelical religion --- Protestantism, Evangelical --- Evangelical Revival --- Fundamentalism --- Pietism --- Protestantism --- Charismatic Movement --- Charismatic Renewal Movement --- Latter Rain movement --- Neo-Pentecostalism --- Pentecostal movement --- Christianity --- Gifts, Spiritual --- Glossolalia --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- Religious life. --- Caracas (Venezuela) --- Santiago de León de Caracas (Venezuela) --- Caracas --- Church history. --- Evangélisme --- Christianisme et civilisation --- Vie religieuse --- Religious life --- Church history --- Caracas (Venezuela) - Church history. --- Evangelicalism - Venezuela - Caracas --- Pentecostalism - Venezuela - Caracas - Case studies --- Christianity and culture - Venezuela - Caracas --- Men - Religious life --- Caracas (Venezuela) - Church history --- benefits of religion. --- caracas. --- christian converts. --- christianity. --- conflict resolution. --- cultural agency. --- cultural history. --- ethnographers. --- evangelical conversion. --- evangelical protestantism. --- evangelicalism. --- faith and religion. --- fieldwork. --- latin american history. --- latin american studies. --- nonfiction. --- overcoming substance abuse. --- pentecostal men. --- religious communities. --- religious historians. --- self discipline. --- south america. --- urban ethnography. --- venezuela. --- world religions.

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This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios. It helps situate readers familiar or not with Latin American in the context that is Caracas, Venezuela, a city displaying one of the world’s highest homicide rates. The book offers a qualitative comparison of the informal mechanisms of social control in three barrios of Caracas. This comprehensive analysis can help explain high homicide rates, while socio-economic conditions improved due to substantial oil windfalls in the twenty-first century. The author describes why informal social control was not effective in some barrios, and points to the role of some organizational arrangements in increasing the incentives to use violence, even under improving socio-economic conditions. The analysis addresses a gap in the literature on violence, which mainly posits high violence rates after economic downturns. Specifically, it investigates social capital's moderating effect between Caracas' political and economic structures and high violence rates. This book concludes that perverse social capital found in the barrios of Caracas helps explain high violence rates while socio-economic indicators improved until the early 2010s. Students and researchers interested in security studies or Latin America will benefit from this book because of its extensive theoretical discussions, use of primary sources, and unique multidisciplinary analysis of urban violence.

Violence --- Caracas (Venezuela) --- Economic aspects. --- Cultural geography. --- Municipal government. --- Human Geography. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Economic development. --- Social change. --- Violence. --- Crime. --- Cultural Geography. --- Urban Politics. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Development and Social Change. --- Violence and Crime. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- City crime --- Crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Human geography --- Social aspects --- Government --- Human geography.

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From 1795 through 1800, a series of revolts rocked Curaçao, a small but strategically located Dutch colony just off the South American continent. A combination of internal and external factors produced these uprisings, in which free and enslaved islanders particiapted with various objectives. A major slave revolt in August 1795 was the opening salvo for these tumultuous five years. While this revolt is a well-known episode in Curaçao an history, its wider Caribbean and Atlantic context is much less known. Also lacking are studies sketching a clear picture of the turbulent five years that followed. It is in these dark corners that this volume aims to shed light. The events discussed in this book fall squarely within the Age of Revolutions, the period that began with the onset of the American Revolution in 1775, was punctuated by the demise of the ancien régime in France, saw the establishment of a black state in Haiti, and witnessed the collapse of Spanish rule in mainland America. All of these revolutions seemed to converge by the late eighteenth century in Curaçao. The seven contributions in this volume provide new insights in the nature of slave resistance in the Age of Revolutions, the remarkable flows of people and ideas in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the unique local history of Curaçao. Full text (Open Access)

Revolutions --- Slave insurrections --- Curaçao --- History --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- Political science --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Slavery --- Insurrections, etc. --- Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) --- Curaçoa (Netherlands Antilles) --- Eilandgebied Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) --- Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou (Netherlands Antilles) --- Kòrsou (Netherlands Antilles) --- Country of Curaçao --- Land Curaçao --- Pais Kòrsou --- Kòrsou --- Востраў Кюрасаа --- Vostraŭ Ki︠u︡rasaa --- Кюрасаа --- Ki︠u︡rasaa --- Кюрасао --- Ki︠u︡rasao --- Autonomní země Curaçao --- Κουρασάο --- Kourasao --- Κράτος του Κουρασάο --- Kratos tou Kourasao --- Curazao --- Curaçaoko Herrialdea --- Kuracao --- Kurasau --- קוראסאו --- Ḳurasaʼo --- Curaçao ország --- Negara Curaçao --- Erekusu Ileagbegbe Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) --- キュラソー島 --- Kyurasōtō --- Kirasao --- Курасао --- Земја Курасао --- Zemja Kurasao --- Kraj Curaçao --- Curaçao Adaları --- Nước Curaçao --- Slave insurrections. --- 1700 - 1799 --- Curaçao --- Curaçao. --- Ki͡urasaa --- Ki͡urasao --- Kyurasōt --- Netherlands Antilles --- Vostraŭ Ki͡urasaa --- colonial politics --- opstand --- revolution --- slavery --- revolutie --- koloniale politiek --- caribbean --- revolts --- slaven opstand --- caribisch --- slavernij --- slave rebellion --- curaçao --- Caracas --- Haitian Revolution --- Saint-Domingue

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Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Guzman Blanco, Antonio --- Guzmán Blanco, Antonio, --- Curaçao --- Netherlands Antilles --- Venezuela --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Foreign relations --- Blanco, Antonio Guzmán, --- Venesuėla --- Republic of Venezuela --- República de Venezuela --- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela --- República Bolivariana de Venezuela --- Gobierno Bolivariano --- Estados Unidos de Venezuela --- Венесуэла --- Баліварыянская Рэспубліка Венесуэла --- Balivaryi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika Venesuėla --- Венецуела --- Venet︠s︡uela --- Боливарска република Венецуела --- Bolivarska republika Venet︠s︡uela --- Βενεζουέλα --- Venezouela --- Μπολιβαριανή Δημοκρατία της Βενεζουέλας --- Bolivarianē Dēmokratia tēs Venezouelas --- 베네수엘라 --- Penesuella --- 베네수엘라 볼리바르 공화국 --- Penesuella Bollibarŭ Konghwaguk --- Венесуэл --- Venesuėl --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Bolivaryn Venesuėl Uls --- ベネズエラ --- Benezuera --- ベネズエラ・ボリバル共和国 --- Benezuera Boribaru Kyōwakoku --- Боливарианская Республика Венесуэла --- Bolivarianskai︠a︡ Respublika Venesuėla --- Venecuela --- Bolivarska Republika Venecuela --- Venezuelan bolivariaaninen tasavalta --- Bolivarianska republiken Venezuela --- Bolivarcı Venezuela Cumhuriyeti --- Wenesuela --- Wenesuela Boliwar Respublikasy --- Венесуела --- Боліварианська Республіка Венесуела --- Bolivaryansʹka Respublika Venesuela --- 委內瑞拉 --- Weineiruila --- 委內瑞拉玻利瓦爾共和國 --- Weineiruila Boliwa'er Gongheguo --- Netherland Antilles --- Nederlandse Antillen --- Antillas Neerlandesas --- Antillas Holandesas --- Antiya Hulandes --- Antia Hulandes --- Dutch Antilles --- Antiles nêrlandêses --- Niderland Antil adaları --- Kē-tē-kok Antilles --- Нідэрландскія Антыльскія астравы --- Nidėrlandskii︠a︡ Antylʹskii︠a︡ astravy --- Нідэрландскія Антылы --- Nidėrlandskii︠a︡ Antyly --- Holandski Antili --- Antilhez Nederlandat --- Нидерландски Антили --- Niderlandski Antili --- Antilles Neerlandeses --- Nizozemské Antily --- Antilles yr Iseldiroedd --- Nederlandske Antiller --- Niederländische Antillen --- Nižozemske Antile --- Hollandi Antillid --- Ολλανδικές Αντίλλες --- Ollandikes Antilles --- AA. NN. --- Nederlandaj Antiloj --- Holandarren Antillak --- Niđurlendsku Antillurnar --- Antilles néerlandaises --- État fédéral autonome des Antilles néerlandaises --- Fédération des Antilles néerlandaises --- Nederlânske Antillen --- Nizozemski Antili --- Antia Ulandes --- Antillen Belanda --- Antillas Nederlandese --- Hollensku Antillaeyjar --- Hollensku Antillur --- Antille olandesi --- Antille nederlandesi --- Netherlands West Indies --- Windward Islands (Netherlands Antilles) --- Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) --- Curaçoa (Netherlands Antilles) --- Eilandgebied Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) --- Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou (Netherlands Antilles) --- Kòrsou (Netherlands Antilles) --- Country of Curaçao --- Land Curaçao --- Pais Kòrsou --- Kòrsou --- Востраў Кюрасаа --- Vostraŭ Ki︠u︡rasaa --- Кюрасаа --- Ki︠u︡rasaa --- Кюрасао --- Ki︠u︡rasao --- Autonomní země Curaçao --- Κουρασάο --- Kourasao --- Κράτος του Κουρασάο --- Kratos tou Kourasao --- Curazao --- Curaçaoko Herrialdea --- Kuracao --- Kurasau --- קוראסאו --- Ḳurasaʼo --- Curaçao ország --- Negara Curaçao --- Erekusu Ileagbegbe Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) --- キュラソー島 --- Kyurasōtō --- Kirasao --- Курасао --- Земја Курасао --- Zemja Kurasao --- Kraj Curaçao --- Curaçao Adaları --- Nước Curaçao --- Diplomatic relations. --- Economic history. --- Curaçao. --- Netherlands Antilles. --- Venezuela. --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Relations --- Balivaryi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika Venesuėla --- Bolivarianskai͡a Respublika Venesuėla --- Bolivarska republika Venet͡suela --- Venet͡suela --- Nidėrlandskii͡a Antylʹskii͡a astravy --- Nidėrlandskii͡a Antyly --- Ki͡urasaa --- Ki͡urasao --- Kyurasōt --- Vostraŭ Ki͡urasaa --- indonesia --- Antonio Guzmán Blanco --- Brakel --- Caracas --- Curaçao --- Dutch people --- Netherlands --- The Hague --- United States