{"product_id":"9780520945135","title":"City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala","description":"In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn't just a belief system--it is a counterinsurgency. Amidst postwar efforts at democratization, multinational mega-churches have conquered street corners and kitchen tables, guiding the faithful to build a sanctified city brick by brick. Drawing on rich interviews and extensive fieldwork, Kevin Lewis O'Neill tracks the culture and politics of one such church, looking at how neo-Pentecostal Christian practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism. Focusing on everyday practices--praying for Guatemala, speaking in tongues for the soul of the nation, organizing prayer campaigns to combat unprecedented levels of crime--O'Neill finds that Christian citizenship has re-politicized the faithful as they struggle to understand what it means to be a believer in a desperately violent Central American city. Innovative, imaginative, conceptually rich, \u003ci\u003eCity of God \u003c\/i\u003ereaches across disciplinary borders as it illuminates the highly charged, evolving relationship between religion, democracy, and the state in Latin America.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120109601008,"sku":"9780520945135","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780520945135_p0.jpg?v=1763710215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780520945135","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}