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"I'm not perfect," Mateo confessed. "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City-amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads-millions of dollars empower church missions, faith-based programs, and seemingly secular security projects to prevent gang violence through the practice of Christian piety. With Guatemala increasingly defined by both God and gangs, Secure the Soul details an emerging strategy of geopolitical significance: regional security by way of good Christian living.

Gang prevention --- Church and social problems --- Christianity and social problems --- Social problems and Christianity --- Social problems and the church --- Social problems --- Gang intervention --- Gangs --- Intervention, Gang --- Prevention of gangs --- Crime prevention --- Prevention --- Gang prevention -- Guatemala -- Guatemala. --- Church and social problems -- Guatemala -- Guatemala. --- anthropology. --- born again. --- central america. --- central american security. --- christian piety. --- christianity. --- church missions. --- crime. --- criminology. --- death squads. --- ethnographic research. --- ex gang member. --- faith based programs. --- gang prevention programs. --- gang violence. --- gangs. --- geopolitical. --- god and religion. --- good christian living. --- governmentality. --- guatemala. --- incarceration. --- life and death. --- lynch mobs. --- overcrowded prisons. --- redemption. --- regional security. --- religion. --- religious influences. --- secular security projects. --- social suffering. --- spiritual.