Archive for June, 2005

Lindhardt - Power in Powerlessness

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Martin Lindhardt
Power in Powerlessness
A Study of Pentecostal Life Worlds and Symbolic Resistance in Urban Chile

Institute of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Abstract
The religious scene in the traditionally Catholic Latin America has been changed dramatically during the last decades by the rapid expansion and proliferation of Pentecostal denominations. In Chile approximately thirteen percent of [...]

Althoff - Religion im Wandel

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Religion im Wandel
Einflüsse von Ethnizität auf die religiöse Ordnung am Beispiel Guatemalas
(Religion in Transition: Influence of Ethnicity on the Religious Order. The Guatemalan Case)

Andrea Althoff

Abstract
Die Dissertation untersucht die Rolle von ethnischen Faktoren hinsichtlich ihrer Bedeutung für die Identitätsbildung von sozialen Bewegungen und Individuen. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, welche Rolle Ethnizität im Zuge der aktuellen, [...]

Traffic news

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

In May we had 734 unique visitors, an average of almost 38 per day, and 100 more than in April. Most popular web service is PentecoStudies, followed by the research log. Yet visitors of the research log still seem to have trouble to find the register button (Come on folks, register!). The most popular search [...]