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Continuity and Rupture: Pentecostal Practice, Community, and Memory in Pinochet's Chile

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Florez, J 

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This paper explores the penetration of Pentecostalism’s discursive emphasis on rupture and discontinuity into the everyday lives of believers in authoritarian Chile. I argue that Pentecostal memories of the dictatorship reflect a less categorical conceptualization of rupture and reveal the dense web of connections and identities that adherents utilized to find meaning and solutions to the struggles they faced in daily life. I further argue that is necessary to gauge Pentecostals’ religious identities and cosmologies during the period through a wider historical framework. They were intimately folded into the long history of violence, oppression, and marginalization in which they were embedded.

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Pentecostalism, memory, violence, Chile, community

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Journal of Religion and Society

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19

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Creighton University

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