Monday 2 June 2008

Martin

"Women are among the 'voiceless' given a new tongue in the circle of Pentecostal communication"1 (181)


evangelical ideology can be used by women to domesticate men2. (181


"Evangelical religion literally restores the breadwinner to the home and restores the primacy of bread in the home."3 (181-182)


legalistic moral standards based on machismo leads to victimisation and abuse but such churches unlikely to prevail.4 (182)

1D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 181.

2D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 181.

3D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 181182.

4D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 182.

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