Lived Religion, Pentecostalism, and Social Activism in Authoritarian Chile

Giving Life to the Faith

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Joseph Florez
In Giving Life to the Faith, Joseph Florez explores Pentecostal social engagement as it was folded into the extraordinary circumstances of everyday life during the Chilean military dictatorship (1973 - 1990). Florez traces Pentecostal activism, commonly portrayed as politically aloof or inert, through the life stories of the believers themselves and uncovers the logics of survival, resistance, and belief that sustained their work in the face of ubiquitous state repression.

Using archival materials and Pentecostal oral histories, Florez brings Pentecostals’ religious innovations and improvisations to the forefront of discussion and challenges observers of Latin American Pentecostalism to reconsider normative interpretations of the world’s fastest growing religious movement.
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2021
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Joseph Florez, Ph.D. (2018), University of Cambridge, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Bakersfield. He has published articles on Pentecostalism in Chile in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and the Journal of Religion and Society.
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
 1 Living in the Shadow of Dictatorship
 2 Charismatic Renewal and Categorical Assumptions
 3 Social Wayfaring or Activist Faith?
 4 Religious Activism and Authoritarian Rule
 5 Resistance as Lived Religious Experience
 6 Identity and Commitment
 7 Researching Religious Activism: Sources and Perspectives

1 Echoes of the Awakening
 1 Catholic Authority and Protestant Minorities
 2 Protestant Missionaries and Limited Success
 3 Religious Revival and the Origins of Chilean Pentecostalism
 4 In the Era of Industrialization and Urbanization
 5 Life at the Margins
 6 Early Pentecostal Life and Community
 7 Indigenizing Pentecostalism
 8 One Answer among Many
 9 The Rise of Salvador Allende
 10 The Church of Puertas Abiertas
 11 History of the Misión Iglesia Pentecostal
 12 Ecumenism and Social Engagement

2 Memory and Everyday Religious Experience in Pinochet’s Chile
 1 The Heavy Hand of Dictatorship
 2 State Repression and Violence
 3 A Culture of Solidarity
 4 Religious Responses to State Oppression
 5 Evangelicals Respond
 6 Transnational Solidarity
 7 Memory Construction
 8 Memory in Chile
 9 An Incomplete Break with the Past – Pentecostal Memory Making
 10 Oral Histories and Pentecostal Traditions
 11 Pentecostal Memory as Community

3 Pentecostal Community Activism
 1 Traversing Social Domains and the ‘Fallen’ World
 2 New Patterns of Religious Activism
 3 The First Steps toward Social Engagement
 4 Constructing an Evangelical Social Ethic
 5 A New Voice for Evangelicals
 6 The Limits of Puertas Abiertas

4 Hacer Vida la Fe
 Pentecostal Youth Activism
 1 The Spirit of the Times: Youth Counterculture
 2 Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll Chilean Style
 3 The Cultural Blackout
 4 Resistance and Reconstruction
 5 In Their Own Way: Young Pentecostal Activists
 6 Buena Nueva
 7 Youth Culture and Pentecostal Social Engagement

5 A Prohibited History of Pentecostal Social Engagement
 1 Religious Practice as Resistance
 2 Everyday Spirituality and the Search for Hope
 3 Cosmologies of Religious Resistance
 4 The Subversive Power of Prayer

Conclusion
 1 The Legacy of Pentecostal Activism and Military Rule
 2 Pentecostalism and Politics
 3 The Peculiar Pentecostalism of the Periphery

Bibliography and Sources
Index

All interested in the history of religion in Chile and religious activism during the Pinochet dictatorship, and anyone concerned with the growth of Pentecostalism in Latin America and beyond.
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