Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
  • Contradictions in a Feminist View of Evangelical Women
  • More Contradictions: Colombian Evangelicalism and the Anthropology of Religion
  • Research Questions: The Domestication of Men?
  • Data Collection
  • The Different Levels of Meaning in the Conversion Experience
  • Gender Analysis in Conversion Studies
  • Plan of the Study
• 2. The Evangelical Movement in Colombia
  • Early Missions
  • The Contemporary Picture: The Size of the Movement
  • The Meaning of “Evangelical” in Colombia
  • Conclusion
• 3. Religion and Politics
  • Introduction
  • The Power of the Roman Catholic Church in Colombia: The Concordat
  • Constitutional Reform and the Concordat
  • Liberals and Conservatives and the Separation of Church and State
  • La Violencia
  • The Effect of La Violencia on Evangelicals in El Cocuy
  • Conclusion
• 4. El Cocuy: Colombian Evangelicalism on the Community Level
  • Rural Life in Urban Colombia
  • Choice of El Cocuy as the Rural Field Site
  • Description of the Town
  • Early History of El Cocuy
  • Religion in El Cocuy
  • The Impact of Foreign Missionaries in El Cocuy: The Lutheran Church of Our Savior
• 5. Domestic Abdication, Individualism, and Machismo
  • Introduction
  • Defining Machismo: Contradictions and Consistencies
  • Domestic Abdication
  • Psychological Approaches: Machismo and Male Dominance
  • Change over Time
  • Machismo, Proletarianization, and Individualism
• 6. Colombian Sex and Gender Roles and the Family
  • Introduction
  • Sex Roles and Familial Roles
  • The Consequences of Machismo for Women’s Household Roles
  • Conjugal Roles and Status Consciousness
  • Case History: Rosalinda
• 7. Colombian Evangelicalism from the Household Out
  • Gender Roles and Marital Roles in the Conversion Process
  • The Economic Effects of Gender Role Transformation
  • The Feminine Ethos of Evangelical Religion
• 8. Conclusion
  • Colombian Evangelicalism as a “Strategic” Form of Female Collective Action
  • Progress, Modernization, and Culture Change
  • Women, the Prosperity Ethic, and the Household Writ Large
• Appendix: Fieldwork with Colombian Evangelicals
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index