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joining Pentecostal churches seen as a route out of everyday violence in Brazil¹ (333)

for women, seen as an alternative to gang culture and offering redemption and security for them and their women² (

1J Gledhill, 'Resisting the Global Slum: Politics, Religion and Consumption in the Remaking of Life Worlds in the Twenty-First Century', Bulletin of Latin American Research 25:3, 322–339, 333.

2J Gledhill, 'Resisting the Global Slum: Politics, Religion and Consumption in the Remaking of Life Worlds in the Twenty-First Century', Bulletin of Latin American Research 25:3, 322–339, 334.