The Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia Book

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
	Contradictions in a Feminist View of Evangelical Women	2
	More Contradictions: Colombian Evangelicalism and the Anthropology of Religion	3
	Research Questions: The Domestication of Men?	5
	Data Collection	6
	The Different Levels of Meaning in the Conversion Experience	8
	Gender Analysis in Conversion Studies	9
	Plan of the Study	10
2	The Evangelical Movement in Colombia	12
	Early Missions	12
	The Contemporary Picture: The Size of the Movement	14
	The Meaning of "Evangelical" in Colombia	14
3	Religion and Politics	31
	The Power of the Roman Catholic Church in Colombia: The Concordat	32
	Constitutional Reform and the Concordat	34
	Liberals and Conservatives and the Separation of Church and State	35
	La Violencia	37
	The Effect of La Violencia on Evangelicals in El Cocuy	40
4	El Cocuy: Colombian Evangelicalism on the Community Level	48
	Rural Life in Urban Colombia	48
	Choice of El Cocuy as the Rural Field Site	49
	Description of the Town	50
	Early History of El Cocuy	56
	Religion in El Cocuy	58
	The Impact of Foreign Missionaries in El Cocuy: The Lutheran Church of Our Savior	64
5	Domestic Abdication, Individualism, and Machismo	77
	Defining Machismo: Contradictions and Consistencies	77
	Domestic Abdication	82
	Psychological Approaches: Machismo and Male Dominance	83
	Change over Time	87
	Machismo, Proletarianization, and Individualism	89
6	Colombian Sex and Gender Roles and the Family	92
	Sex Roles and Familial Roles	93
	The Consequences of Machismo for Women's Household Roles	100
	Conjugal Roles and Status Consciousness	102
	Case History: Rosalinda	107
7	Colombian Evangelicalism from the Household Out	114
	Gender Roles and Marital Roles in the Conversion Process	114
	The Economic Effects of Gender Role Transformation	123
	The Feminine Ethos of Evangelical Religion	129
8	Conclusion	135
	Colombian Evangelicalism as a "Strategic" Form of Female Collective Action	135
	Progress, Modernization, and Culture Change	141
	Women, the Prosperity Ethic, and the Household Writ Large	144
	Appendix: Fieldwork with Colombian Evangelicals	147
	Notes	167
	Bibliography	181
	Index	195