Negotiating Respect
Negotiating Respect is an ethnographically rich investigation of Pentecostal Christianity--the Caribbean’s fastest growing religious movement--in the contemporary Dominican Republic.
Within the context of urban poverty in a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Jamal Thornton considers the role of religious identity in the lives of young male churchgoers who navigate conversion as a transformative me...
Negotiating Respect is an ethnographically rich investigation of Pentecostal Christianity--the Caribbean’s fastest growing religious movement--in the contemporary Dominican Republic.
Within the context of urban poverty in a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Jamal Thornton considers the role of religious identity in the lives of young male churchgoers who navigate conversion as a transformative me...
