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Debt and evangelical capitalism in Colombia / Rebecca C. Bartel

May 19 2021
Episode 1339

 

Rebecca C. Bartel

Do you believe in financial resurrection? Faith and debt in neoliberal Colombia.

Religious studies scholar Rebecca C. Bartel on debt as a fulcrum between prosperity Christianity and neoliberal market reforms in Colombian society, and her book Card-Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia from University of California Press.