R. Andrew Chesnut
Author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
About the Author
A. Andrew Chesnut if Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy (2003) and Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of show more Poverty (1997). show less
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Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious… by R. Andrew Chesnut
Very interesting read on examining the religious history of Latin America with economic principles of goods and marketing. It really helped me better understand the role of Catholicism and the quick spread of Pentecostalism in Latin America.
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