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In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction: Aspirational Faith
1. Credit
2. The Soul
3. Deregulating Christianity
4. Inclusion
5. Multiplication
6. Becoming
Conclusion: Necrofinance

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 24/05/2021
      ISBN13: 9780520380011, 978-0520380011
      ISBN10: 0520380010
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments
      Preface

      Introduction: Aspirational Faith
      1. Credit
      2. The Soul
      3. Deregulating Christianity
      4. Inclusion
      5. Multiplication
      6. Becoming
      Conclusion: Necrofinance

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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