Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America
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Why would a gun-wielding, tattoo-bearing "homie" trade in la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in Christ)? To answer this question, Robert Brenneman interviewed sixty-three former gang members from the "Northern Triangle" of Central America--Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras--most of whom left their gang for evangelicalism. Unlike in the United States, membership in a Central American gang...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199753903
ISBN13:9780199753901
Release Date:November 2011
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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