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_aWiegele, Katharine L., _d-1966 _944242 |
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_aInvesting in miracles : _bEl Shaddai and the transformation of popular Catholicism in the Philippines / _cKatharine L. Wiegele. |
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_aQuezon City : _bAteneo De Manila University Press, _cc2007. |
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_axi, 207 pages : _billustrations _c24 cm. |
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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 | ||
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_aPentecostalism _944243 |
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_aPentecostalism _zPhilippines. _998341 |
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