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11%OFFJill Detemple - Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories - 9780268026110 - V9780268026110
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Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories

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Description for Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HRCX7; JFSF; KCM; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.

Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher in central Ecuador, Jill DeTemple examines the forces that have led to this entanglement of religion and development and the ways in which rural Ecuadorians, as well as development and religious personnel, negotiate these complicated relationships.

Technical innovations have been connected to religious change since the time of the Inca conquest, and Ecuadorians have ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268026110
SKU
V9780268026110
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About Jill Detemple
Jill DeTemple is associate professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University.

Reviews for Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories
"Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador examines the relationship between development and religion and the ongoing negotiation of this relationship in Ecuador. Jill DeTemple argues for an important revision to previous work that portrays contemporary religious movements as resistant to modernity, showing instead that what is happening is an ongoing negotiation and reformation of ... Read more

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