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Card-Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia

Card-Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia

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AnthropologyGeneral ChristianitySouth American History

ISBN10: 0520380029
ISBN13: 9780520380028
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: May 24 2021
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 C. 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.

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