RT Article
T1 Healing the Curse of the grosero Husband: Women's Health Seeking and Pentecostal Conversion in Oaxaca, Mexico
JF Journal of contemporary religion
VO 30
IS 3
SP 415
OP 433
A1 Everett, Margaret Carter
A2 Ramirez, Michelle
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1571614540
AB Drawing on anthropological research in Oaxaca, Mexico, this article describes the role of health seeking in women's experiences with Pentecostal conversion. The present study confirms that Pentecostalism's promise of reforming problematic male behavior is a significant draw for women. Women's stories of conversion are strikingly consistent in their accounts of male drinking, womanizing, and domestic violence. However, the findings also demonstrate that when efforts to domesticate men fail—and they often do—women still find significant ways in which Pentecostalism addresses suffering. The study provides a unique contribution to the literature by exploring that paradox in detail.
DO 10.1080/13537903.2015.1081343