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050 _a BX 809.E53 ;.W635 2005
100 _aWiegele, Katharine L.,
_d-1966
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245 0 _aInvesting in miracles :
_bEl Shaddai and the transformation of popular Catholicism in the Philippines /
_cKatharine L. Wiegele.
260 _aQuezon City :
_bAteneo De Manila University Press,
_cc2007.
300 _axi, 207 pages :
_billustrations
_c24 cm.
520 _a and the relevance of their very notions of God, Christian community, and Christian life. (Source: http://www.kabayancentral.com)
520 _aSince the early 1980s, approximately ten million people have turned to charismatic businessman-turned-preacher "Brother Mike" and his Catholic "prosperity" movement, El Shaddai. Investing in Miracles offers an in-depth look at this unique indigenous movement, characterized by its effective use of mass media and its huge, emotion-filled outdoor rallies. Wiegele argues that El Shaddai's theology directly engages and affirms desires for the material signs of modernity in ways that the mainstream Philippine Roman Catholic Church and Filipino leftist movements do not. At stake for its many adherents are their place and identity within the broader society, the meaning of their experiences pf poverty, suffering, and oppression
650 _aPentecostalism
_944243
650 _aPentecostalism
_zPhilippines.
_998341
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