Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America
Author:   Robert Brenneman (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   312
Publication Date:   08 December 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Robert Brenneman (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780199753840


ISBN 10:   0199753849
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   08 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: JJ's Second Marriage Chapter One: From Pandilla to Mara Chapter Two: Christian, Not Catholic Chapter Three: When Shame becomes Violence Chapter Four: Dodging the Morgue Rule Chapter Five: Don't Mess with Curly! Chapter Six: Samaritans and Crusaders Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Selected Characteristics of Interviewed Ex-gang Members Appendix C: A Primer of Gang Vocabulary References Notes

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<br> A fascinating window into how street-tough gangbangers abandon the vida loca for evangelical Christianity, trading one set of identity markers, community, and mores for another. Homies and Hermanos describes how religious conversion provides Central American pandilleros with one of the only ways to leave gang life that does not end in the morgue. Beautifully written and compellingly told! <br>--Virginia Garrard-Burnett, author of Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efra n R os Montt, 1982-1983<br><p><br> Brenneman provides a new twist in the gang literature: the surprising parallels between emotional rituals and public display of symbols in both the violent gangs and evangelical churches of Central America. These are the poles of attraction in a market for emotional energy, allowing ex-gang members an escape from membership-to-the-death if they show genuine conversion that the gang respects. In this ritual economy, only one powerful ritual can substitut


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Robert Brenneman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. He is the author of Faith and the Foreigner.

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