“Influenced by feminist scholarship, religious studies, and political economy theory, Ramirez examines how Oaxacans negotiate Pentacostalism amidst ever-changing global neoliberal economic trends and state and local political powers. An exceptional ethnography, the author presents a careful and compassionate examination of healing narratives in a world dominated by crisis, uncertainty, and instability. The result is a nuanced and complex description of how power is contested and reimagined amidst a backdrop of modernity.”
—Jennifer Wies, professor of anthropology and associate provost at Eastern Kentucky University and president of the Society for Applied Anthropology
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“Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca offers a window into the seldom-discussed world of Mexican Pentecostalism. With candor, sensitivity, and humor, Michelle Ramirez dives deep into a little understood community, offering new insights about gender, spirituality, and the nature of healing.”
—Beatriz Reyes-Foster, author of Psychiatric Encounters: Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
“Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca . . .is a beautifully rendered ethnography of an evangelical Christian congregation in Oaxaca, Mexico. Professor Ramirez’s writing is sensitive and compassionate, and her boundless generosity of spirit shine throughout, as in her own surprising ethnographic journey and in descriptions of the lives, for better and for worse, of its preachers and congregants.”
—Carole H. Browner, editor of the award-winning collection, Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
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