Description
| Product ID: | 9780520380028 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Card-Carrying Christians |
| Subtitle: | Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia |
| Authors: | Author: Rebecca C. Bartel |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Christianity, Anthropology, Political economy, Christian Churches & denominations, Christian institutions & organizations, Anthropology, Political economy, South America |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-05-24 |
