Financializing the soul: Christian microfinance and economic missionization in Colombia

Microfinance is the vanguard of financialization today. This is especially true in Colombia, where microfinance rivals any other type of formal credit. Entangled with Colombia’s micro-financialization is the phenomenon of microfinance corporations in joint ventures with Christian organizations that...

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Main Author: Bartel, Rebecca C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2021
In: Critical research on religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-47
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Colombia / Microfinance / Christianity / Religious organization / Mission
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
KBR Latin America
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Colombia
B Credit
B Debt
B Microfinance
B Financialization
B Christianity
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