- 1999/162 pages
Faith in the Barrios:
The Pentecostal Poor in Bogotá
Hardcover: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-55587-827-6
The Pentecostal Poor offers a rich and powerful perspective on evangelicalism in the barrios of Latin America, exploring conversion and subsequent commitments to faith in an unstable environment of poverty and violence.
Bomann’s study, based on extensive fieldwork, is unique in that it reveals the evangelical Protestant movement through the eyes of the believers themselves, as well as from the author’s combined religious and scholarly perspectives. Uncovering deep intimacies of devotion and struggle in the lives of residents of a marginalized neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia, Bomann provides vivid description and careful analysis of a religious movement that is having a profound influence in Latin America.
