Foreword

KRISTIN NORGET AND CATHERINE C.LEGRAND   3

Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America's Zones of Crisis: Introduction

JEFEREY W. RUBIN, DAVID WMILDE, AND BENJAMIN JUNGE   7

PART 1 : SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY

Accion cultural Popular, Responsible Procreation, and the Roots of Social Activism in Rural Colombia

MARY ROLDAN    27

Iglesia Catolica y democracia participativa y protagonica en Venezuela

MARGARITA LOPEZ MAYA   45

Religion and Resistance to Extraction in Rural Peru: Is the Catholic Church Following the People?

JAVIER ARELLANO-YANGUAS     61

"The Energy of Others" : Narratives of Envy and Purification among Former Grassroots Community Leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil

BENJAMIN JUNGE     81

PART 2 : ACTIVISTS SPEAK ABOUT RELIGION

Activistas hablan de religion y movomientos sociales, Lima 2010

DAVID SMILDE, ALEJANDRO VELASCO Y JEFEREY W. RUBIN     99

PART 3 : ZONES OF CRISIS

Wrestling the Devil : Conversion and Exit from Central American Gangs

ROBERT BRENNEMAN    112

Santa Muerte, Protection and Desamparo: A View from a Mexico City Altar

LAURA ROUSH    129

Violence, Citizenship and Religion in a Rio de Janeiro Favela

ENRIQUE DESMOND ARIAS     149

Friction, Conversion, and Contention : Prophetic POlitics in the Tohono O'odham Bordelands

JOSE ANTONIO LUCERO    168

Advancing the Grounded Study of Religion and Society in Latin America: Concluding Comments

RICHARD L. WOOD    185