Chesnut Born Again

RA Chesnut, Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty, (London: Rutgers University Press, 1997)

Ideology and Morality
points to the fact that a far greater rupture is demanded of a male who converts than from a female.1 (108) most significant impact on males of conversion is repudiation of vices and partying.2 110
“the Pentecostal household reallocates expenditures from the extradomestic to the domestic.”3 114
increase in caloric intake once the male head converts (in Belem)4 117
Tithe: movement from being a receiver to being a creditor/ empowered as a donor to the church.5 119
Women's role as wife and mother becomes “doing God's work”6 120
“Brega...is a type of saccharine music popular among the urban poor in Brazil. In popular usage, the middle and upper classes employ the term to denote anything that is “low class” or tacky.”7 180 note 2