TY - JOUR
T1 - First the Revolutionary Culture Innovations in Empowered Citizenship from Evangelical Highland Peru
AU - Scarritt, Arthur
PY - 2013/7/1
Y1 - 2013/7/1
N2 - The long-standing marginalization of highland Peru, coupled with the terrible violence of the 1980s and 1990s civil war, make it a difficult place for political mobilization. Nevertheless, one village successfully asserted its self-determination in the face of an exploitative political economy through conversion to Evangelical Christianity. A revolutionary cultural break from the mainstream created a vibrant local subculture that stressed brotherhood and provided meaning to adherents, allowing them to seize local opportunities to assert a more egalitarian social reality. While specific to this village’s conditions, these experiences speak to broader possibilities for innovative social change through novel combinations of cultural practices and political concerns.
AB - The long-standing marginalization of highland Peru, coupled with the terrible violence of the 1980s and 1990s civil war, make it a difficult place for political mobilization. Nevertheless, one village successfully asserted its self-determination in the face of an exploitative political economy through conversion to Evangelical Christianity. A revolutionary cultural break from the mainstream created a vibrant local subculture that stressed brotherhood and provided meaning to adherents, allowing them to seize local opportunities to assert a more egalitarian social reality. While specific to this village’s conditions, these experiences speak to broader possibilities for innovative social change through novel combinations of cultural practices and political concerns.
KW - Peru
KW - ethnography
KW - evangelicalism
KW - indigenous people
KW - social movements
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/sociology_facpubs/32
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582X13484293
U2 - 10.1177/0094582X13484293
DO - 10.1177/0094582X13484293
M3 - Article
JO - Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations
JF - Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations
ER -