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‘We, the Youth, Need to Be Effusive’: Pentecostal Youth Culture in Contemporary Chile
Author(s) -
LINDHARDT MARTIN
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2012.00735.x
Subject(s) - youth culture , ideology , sociology , bricolage , dilemma , gender studies , environmental ethics , political science , politics , epistemology , law , art , philosophy , literature
This paper explores the recasting of Pentecostalism as a youth religion in contemporary Chile. I focus in particular on how young native Pentecostals, whose life experiences and social status differ from those of ex‐Catholic converts, address the dilemma of being exposed to the religious culture of their parents, and their congregation, and to the secular youth culture beyond the religious community. I argue that, although faced with many challenges, young Pentecostals are able to define vital roles and positions for themselves within their church and in wider society, as they engage in a creative bricolage , embracing certain aspects of globalised youth ideologies as fundamental features of their Pentecostal self‐identities.