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Gangs

Brenneman, “Wrestling the Devil”

Brenneman, Robert.  2015.  Wrestling the Devil: Conversion and Exit from Central American Gangs.  Latin American Research Review 49(S): 112-128. Abstract: …

February 25, 2015 ndca-admin

O’Neill, “Secure the Soul”

O’Neill, Kevin Lewis.  2015. Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala.  Berkeley: University of California Press. Publisher’s …

December 2, 2014 ndca-admin

Flores, “God’s Gangs”

Flores, Edward Orozco. 2013. God’s Gangs: Barrio Ministry, Masculinity, and Gang Recovery. New York: NYU Press. Release Date: December 11, …

November 4, 2013 ndca-admin

Wolseth, Jon. 2011. Jesus and the Gang: Youth Violence and Christianity in Urban Honduras. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press

Reviewed by Henri Gooren (Oakland University). This fine ethnography begins with a murder. “They shot him, they shot El Títere. El Títere is dead”. Children are shouting and running; soon a crowd forms near the shirtless corpse of a young man who was “barely twenty”

August 2, 2013 ndca-admin

O’Neill, “Left Behind”

O’Neill, Kevin. 2013. “Left Behind: Security, Salvation, and the Subject of Prevention.” Cultural Anthropology 28(2):204-226. Abstract: “In North Carolina, a faith-based …

May 7, 2013 ndca-admin

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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
Man painting, Dolls, Candles, Monastery Artabyunk - Hillary Kaell
Car - James Bielo

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