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Card-Carrying Christians : Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia
Author
Title
Card-Carrying Christians : Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia / Rebecca C. Bartel.
ISBN
9780520977068
Publication
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (312 p.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Other formats
print
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 14, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Aspirational faith
1 Credit
2 The Soul
3 Deregulating Christianity
4 Inclusion
5 Multiplication
6 Becoming
Conclusion: Necrofinance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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