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Secure the Soul

Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

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Secure the Soul

Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

I’m not perfect," Mateo confessed. "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City—amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads—millions of dollars empower church missions, faith-based programs, and seemingly secular security projects to prevent gang violence through the practice of Christian piety. With Guatemala increasingly defined by both God and gangs, Secure the Soul details an emerging strategy of geopolitical significance: regional security by way of good Christian living.

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Univ of California Press

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0520960092

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Hunted

Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

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Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

“It’s not a process,” one pastor insisted, “rehabilitation is a miracle.” In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they operate produce this miracle of rehabilitation through extraordinary means: captivity. These men of faith snatch drug users off the streets, often at the request of family members, and then lock them up inside their centers for months, sometimes years. Hunted is based on more than ten years of fieldwork among these centers and the drug users that populate them. Over time, as Kevin Lewis O’Neill engaged both those in treatment and those who surveilled them, he grew increasingly concerned that he, too, had become a hunter, albeit one snatching up information. This thoughtful, intense book will reframe the arc of redemption we so often associate with drug rehabilitation, painting instead a seemingly endless cycle of hunt, capture, and release.

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University of Chicago Press

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022662465X

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9780226624655

City of God

Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

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City of God

Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

City of God' explores the role of neo-Pentecostal Christian sects in the religious, social & political life of Guatemala. O'Neill examines one such church, looking at how its practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism.

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Univ of California Press

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0520260627

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Secure the Soul

Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

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Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

“I’m not perfect,” Mateo confessed. “Nobody is. But I try.” Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City—amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads—millions of dollars empower church missions, faith-based programs, and seemingly secular security projects to prevent gang violence through the practice of Christian piety. With Guatemala increasingly defined by both God and gangs, Secure the Soul details an emerging strategy of geopolitical significance: regional security by way of good Christian living.

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University of California Press

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0520278496

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City of God

Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

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Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala

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0520260635

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Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill,Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

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Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill,Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

Through a series of rich photographs, Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio tells a compelling story about the war on drugs in Central America. Entirely bilingual in both English and Spanish, the book focuses on the country of Guatemala, now the principle point of transit for the cocaine that is produced in the Andes and bound for the United States and Canada. Alongside a spike in the use of crack cocaine, Guatemala City has witnessed the proliferation of Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers. The centers are sites of abuse and torment, but also lifesaving institutions in a country that does not provide any other viable social service to those struggling with drug dependency. Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio explores these centers as architectural forms, while also showcasing the cultural production that takes place inside them, including drawings and letters created by those held captive. This stunning work of visual ethnography humanizes those held inside these centers, breaks down stereotypes about drug use, and sets the conditions for a hemispheric conversation about prohibitionist practices – by revealing intimate portraits of a population held hostage by a war on drugs.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487535627

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Hunted

Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

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Hunted

Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala

By: Kevin Lewis O'Neill

“A necessary addition to the literature on Latin America’s Pentecostals, whose number exceeds 100 million . . . a highly readable text.” —Times Higher Education “It’s not a process,” one pastor insisted, “rehabilitation is a miracle.” In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they operate produce this miracle of rehabilitation through extraordinary means: captivity. These men of faith snatch drug users off the streets, often at the request of family members, and then lock them up inside their centers for months, sometimes years. Hunted is based on more than ten years of fieldwork among these centers and the drug users that populate them. Over time, as Kevin Lewis O’Neill engaged both those in treatment and those who surveilled them, he grew increasingly concerned that he, too, had become a hunter, albeit one snatching up information. This thoughtful, intense book will reframe the arc of redemption we so often associate with drug rehabilitation, painting instead a seemingly endless cycle of hunt, capture, and release. “O’Neill uses his dramatic story of the manhunt to rethink Foucauldian pastoral power . . . [an] utterly brilliant book.” —PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review “The theme of Kevin Lewis O’Neill’s fascinating book, Hunted—i.e., drug addicts kidnapped and held in involuntary confinement in treatment centers run by Guatemalan Pentecostals—may strike readers as so outré or outrageous as to provoke a reaction . . . Hunted consists in brilliant participant-observer reportage.” —Pneuma

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University of Chicago Press

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022662479X

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9780226624792

Brett

His Own Story

By: Brett Hull,Kevin Allen

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Brett

His Own Story

By: Brett Hull,Kevin Allen

In this newly revised edition, NHL sensation Brett Hull tells his own story and shares his troubles and triumphs. Archival photos throughout.

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Chicago : Triumph Books

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1572435968

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The Promise and Performance of American Democracy

By: Jon R. Bond,Richard Abernathy Watson,Kevin B. Smith

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The Promise and Performance of American Democracy

By: Jon R. Bond,Richard Abernathy Watson,Kevin B. Smith

Grounded in basic political science research, yet readily accessible to undergraduates, PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE uses the title's theme as an organizing framework for studying American Politics. The promise of democracy is analyzed using four core values: Popular Sovereignty, Political Freedom, Political Equality and Majority Rule/Minority Rights and is further explored in several new features including Living the Promise and Promise and Policy boxes. The performance part of the theme is then integrated with an assessment at the end of every chapter along with a concluding policy chapter. Solid scholarship and writing makes this an ideal text not just for reading and learning, but also as an example of how political science is researched and written by the practitioners in academia.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0534610536

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9780534610531

Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio

By: Kevin Lewis O’Neill,Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

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Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio

By: Kevin Lewis O’Neill,Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

This bilingual photography book investigates the complexities of today's war on drugs by examining the art and architecture of Guatemala City's Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487524803

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