David Smilde
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Smilde |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Smilde |
| SIGNATURE | SMILDE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela
International Peacemaking in Venezuela’s Intractable Conflict
Can international peacemaking efforts succeed in an intractable conflict such as the one in Venezuela? In this paper we put forward a conceptualization of peacemaking processes that underlines their ability to creatively change the terms of a conflict. Then we look at the four dialogue and negotiation processes that have occurred during the government of Nicolás Maduro. Our review shows that while it is clear that the Maduro government uses dialo…
Reason to Believe
Evangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America, if not the world. For converts, it emphasizes self-discipline and provides a network of communal support, which together have helped many overcome substance abuse, avoid crime and violence, and resolve relationship problems. But can people simply decide to believe in a religion because of the benefits it reportedly delivers? Based on extensive fieldwork a…
Beyond Civil Society
Religions and Social Progress
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Does Funding Impact Our Research? Causality, Normativity, and Diversity in 40 Years of U.S. Sociology of Religion
In this article we use a sample of 40 years of sociology journal articles ( N = 1,024) on religion to ask what role funding plays in some of the leading trends in the subdiscipline. Our analysis reveals a considerable increase in the number of published articles on religion with funding over the past 40 years as well as a shift away from public funding as the primary source of funding. Engaging our findings in previous analyses of this database, …
Alternative Sociologies of Religion
James Spickard’s new book is a contribution to the round of reflection that has been happening in the sociology of religion over the past decade. He starts by looking at the “default paradigm” that regards religion as a matter of belief embodied in religious institutions which cohere into a separate sphere, and which work with a historical narrative of secularization. Spickard then looks at other recent efforts to challenge this paradigm, includi…
Studying Gender and Sexualities with Qualitative Methods
Crime and Revolution in Venezuela
Figure 1 Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: The Relationship of Poverty and HomicideSource: Poverty data from data.worldbank.org; homicide data from the Ministerio del Poder Popular para Interior y
Minority Participation and Well-Being in Majority Catholic Nations
The Sources of Cultural Power
Causality, Normativity, and Diversity in 40 Years of U.S. Sociology of Religion
This article aims to contribute to paradigmatic reflection in U.S. sociology of religion. Analysis of 40 years of articles in U.S. sociology of religion journals shows an increasing trend toward portraying religion as an independent variable as well as in normative, especially positive terms. The data also show a surprising lack of diversification in the subdiscipline. Research on the United States, Christianity, and most specifically Protestanti…
The End of Chavismo
Perhaps Maduro's biggest deficit is his personal lack of charisma in a government designed by, institutionalized around, and requiring a charismatic figure
We Created Chávez
Activistas hablan de religión y movimientos sociales, Lima 2010
Este artículo transcribe y considera la discusión suscitada en Lima, Perú entre activistas y académicos de las Américas tras nuestra presentación de trabajos preliminares sobre religión y movimientos sociales progresistas. Al concluir las ponencias, planteamos al público varias preguntas para pensar sus experiencias con la religión en el marco de su activismo. El artículo intenta capturar el interés y la diversidad de intervenciones al invertir l…
Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America's Zones of Crisis
In this introduction we present the concepts of "lived religion" and "lived citizenship" as tools for understanding the ways in which religious and political meanings and practices are constituted in social movements and locations of poverty and exclusion in Latin America. We first develop the idea of "zones of crisis" as a context in which struggles for rights, recognition, and survival are enacted. We then challenge reified distinctions between…
Religion on the Edge
The thirteen chapters in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences. By expanding conceptual categories, the chapters reveal how aspects of the religious have always been part of allegedly non…
Religião e Conflitos Políticos na Venezuela
Este artigo se debruça sobre a complexa relação do governo Chávez com a Igreja católica e com o movimento evangélico. O governo Chávez tem repetidamente se confrontado com a hierarquia da Igreja católica na medida em que tem buscado desestabilizar as instituições existentes, incluindo a Igreja. Em contraste, ele atraído o movimento evangélico no processo de estabelecer alianças com novos atores sociais e políticos. No entanto as reações de padres…
Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy
De-Centering and Re-Centering
Four conceptual and methodological edges or areas of study are outlined. They are located near what have been the boundaries between the sociology of religion and other subfields, where we believe a potential exists to encourage a wide range of scholars to revisit some central concepts. Paying attention to these edges—as a means to de-center to re-center our debates in new ways—not only broadens and deepens our knowledge of the “religious,” it en…
Blood and Fire
International review of social history
All forms of popular protest include a specific category of 'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality, speak in the name of popular classes and who articulate ideas that inspire collective action. This volume focuses on these individuals from an original angle: it looks at the experiences of popular intellectuals in non-western societies, who operate within social-movement networks that link local, regional, and international arenas,…
A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conversion to Venezuelan Evangelicalism
While the influence of networks in conversion is among the most established findings in the sociology of religion, relatively little is known about how and why they have their influence. In this study the author finds the social conformity theorization most often used in network analysis important but incomplete. Network ties are frequently influential despite little or no direct contact between ego and alter and little or no motivation to confor…
Popular Publics
Classic liberal conceptions of the public sphere generally miscast the public participation of popular sectors in the developing world as premodern, proto-political, or nonrational. The term “popular intellectual” is a useful corrective since it focuses attention on discourses and symbols that are consciously created and endure beyond the individuals and events which put them into play. The term “popular publics” – intentionally organized relatio…
Contradiction without Paradox
Venezuelan Evangelicals' responses to candidates in that country's 1998 presidential election seem to confirm the view that their political culture is inconsistent, contradictory, and paradoxical. Not only were they just as likely to support nationalist ex-coup leader Hugo Chávez as was the larger population, they also rejected Venezuela's one Evangelical party when it made a clientelist pact with the infamous candidate of Venezuela's discredited…
De-Centering and Re-Centering
Four conceptual and methodological edges or areas of study are outlined. They are located near what have been the boundaries between the sociology of religion and other subfields, where we believe a potential exists to encourage a wide range of scholars to revisit some central concepts. Paying attention to these edges—as a means to de-center to re-center our debates in new ways—not only broadens and deepens our knowledge of the “religious,” it en…
A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conversion to Venezuelan Evangelicalism
While the influence of networks in conversion is among the most established findings in the sociology of religion, relatively little is known about how and why they have their influence. In this study the author finds the social conformity theorization most often used in network analysis important but incomplete. Network ties are frequently influential despite little or no direct contact between ego and alter and little or no motivation to confor…
Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America's Zones of Crisis
In this introduction we present the concepts of "lived religion" and "lived citizenship" as tools for understanding the ways in which religious and political meanings and practices are constituted in social movements and locations of poverty and exclusion in Latin America. We first develop the idea of "zones of crisis" as a context in which struggles for rights, recognition, and survival are enacted. We then challenge reified distinctions between…
Skirting the Instrumental Paradox
Letting God Govern
Social scientists studying Pentecostalism in Latin America have argued that it is political in the identities, expectations, and social formations it creates; and that it could have important political consequences in the future. But do Pentecostals themselves think about their role in changing society? In this article I conceptualize the “religious frame” of Venezuelan Pentecostals and explore it using data from qualitative interviews. The resul…
The Fundamental Unity of the Conservative and Revolutionary Tendencies in Venezuelan Evangelicalism
Social scientists generally analyse the coexistence of patriarchal and egalitarian tendencies within evangelical Protestantism as a case of assimilation of one tendency to a religion essentially characterized by the other, or as an ad hoc construction of strategic actors. Here the work of Ernst Troeltsch is used to theorize the fundamental unity of the ‘conservative and revolutionary tendencies’ within Christian social thought. Interviews conduct…
Contradiction without Paradox
Venezuelan Evangelicals' responses to candidates in that country's 1998 presidential election seem to confirm the view that their political culture is inconsistent, contradictory, and paradoxical. Not only were they just as likely to support nationalist ex-coup leader Hugo Chávez as was the larger population, they also rejected Venezuela's one Evangelical party when it made a clientelist pact with the infamous candidate of Venezuela's discredited…
Popular Publics
Classic liberal conceptions of the public sphere generally miscast the public participation of popular sectors in the developing world as premodern, proto-political, or nonrational. The term “popular intellectual” is a useful corrective since it focuses attention on discourses and symbols that are consciously created and endure beyond the individuals and events which put them into play. The term “popular publics” – intentionally organized relatio…
Religião e Conflitos Políticos na Venezuela
Este artigo se debruça sobre a complexa relação do governo Chávez com a Igreja católica e com o movimento evangélico. O governo Chávez tem repetidamente se confrontado com a hierarquia da Igreja católica na medida em que tem buscado desestabilizar as instituições existentes, incluindo a Igreja. Em contraste, ele atraído o movimento evangélico no processo de estabelecer alianças com novos atores sociais e políticos. No entanto as reações de padres…
International Peacemaking in Venezuela’s Intractable Conflict
Can international peacemaking efforts succeed in an intractable conflict such as the one in Venezuela? In this paper we put forward a conceptualization of peacemaking processes that underlines their ability to creatively change the terms of a conflict. Then we look at the four dialogue and negotiation processes that have occurred during the government of Nicolás Maduro. Our review shows that while it is clear that the Maduro government uses dialo…
Studying Gender and Sexualities with Qualitative Methods
The Sources of Cultural Power
We Created Chávez
Looking for God in Brazil
Virtuosity, Charisma, and Social Order
The Fundamental Unity of the Conservative and Revolutionary Tendencies in Venezuelan Evangelicalism
Social scientists generally analyse the coexistence of patriarchal and egalitarian tendencies within evangelical Protestantism as a case of assimilation of one tendency to a religion essentially characterized by the other, or as an ad hoc construction of strategic actors. Here the work of Ernst Troeltsch is used to theorize the fundamental unity of the ‘conservative and revolutionary tendencies’ within Christian social thought. Interviews conduct…
Letting God Govern
Social scientists studying Pentecostalism in Latin America have argued that it is political in the identities, expectations, and social formations it creates; and that it could have important political consequences in the future. But do Pentecostals themselves think about their role in changing society? In this article I conceptualize the “religious frame” of Venezuelan Pentecostals and explore it using data from qualitative interviews. The resul…
Resisting Reagan
Pentecostalism in Brazil
Skirting the Instrumental Paradox
Popular Publics
Classic liberal conceptions of the public sphere generally miscast the public participation of popular sectors in the developing world as premodern, proto-political, or nonrational. The term “popular intellectual” is a useful corrective since it focuses attention on discourses and symbols that are consciously created and endure beyond the individuals and events which put them into play. The term “popular publics” – intentionally organized relatio…
Contradiction without Paradox
Venezuelan Evangelicals' responses to candidates in that country's 1998 presidential election seem to confirm the view that their political culture is inconsistent, contradictory, and paradoxical. Not only were they just as likely to support nationalist ex-coup leader Hugo Chávez as was the larger population, they also rejected Venezuela's one Evangelical party when it made a clientelist pact with the infamous candidate of Venezuela's discredited…
International review of social history
All forms of popular protest include a specific category of 'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality, speak in the name of popular classes and who articulate ideas that inspire collective action. This volume focuses on these individuals from an original angle: it looks at the experiences of popular intellectuals in non-western societies, who operate within social-movement networks that link local, regional, and international arenas,…
A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conversion to Venezuelan Evangelicalism
While the influence of networks in conversion is among the most established findings in the sociology of religion, relatively little is known about how and why they have their influence. In this study the author finds the social conformity theorization most often used in network analysis important but incomplete. Network ties are frequently influential despite little or no direct contact between ego and alter and little or no motivation to confor…
Blood and Fire
Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy
De-Centering and Re-Centering
Four conceptual and methodological edges or areas of study are outlined. They are located near what have been the boundaries between the sociology of religion and other subfields, where we believe a potential exists to encourage a wide range of scholars to revisit some central concepts. Paying attention to these edges—as a means to de-center to re-center our debates in new ways—not only broadens and deepens our knowledge of the “religious,” it en…
Religion on the Edge
The thirteen chapters in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences. By expanding conceptual categories, the chapters reveal how aspects of the religious have always been part of allegedly non…
Religião e Conflitos Políticos na Venezuela
Este artigo se debruça sobre a complexa relação do governo Chávez com a Igreja católica e com o movimento evangélico. O governo Chávez tem repetidamente se confrontado com a hierarquia da Igreja católica na medida em que tem buscado desestabilizar as instituições existentes, incluindo a Igreja. Em contraste, ele atraído o movimento evangélico no processo de estabelecer alianças com novos atores sociais e políticos. No entanto as reações de padres…
Activistas hablan de religión y movimientos sociales, Lima 2010
Este artículo transcribe y considera la discusión suscitada en Lima, Perú entre activistas y académicos de las Américas tras nuestra presentación de trabajos preliminares sobre religión y movimientos sociales progresistas. Al concluir las ponencias, planteamos al público varias preguntas para pensar sus experiencias con la religión en el marco de su activismo. El artículo intenta capturar el interés y la diversidad de intervenciones al invertir l…
Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America's Zones of Crisis
In this introduction we present the concepts of "lived religion" and "lived citizenship" as tools for understanding the ways in which religious and political meanings and practices are constituted in social movements and locations of poverty and exclusion in Latin America. We first develop the idea of "zones of crisis" as a context in which struggles for rights, recognition, and survival are enacted. We then challenge reified distinctions between…
Causality, Normativity, and Diversity in 40 Years of U.S. Sociology of Religion
This article aims to contribute to paradigmatic reflection in U.S. sociology of religion. Analysis of 40 years of articles in U.S. sociology of religion journals shows an increasing trend toward portraying religion as an independent variable as well as in normative, especially positive terms. The data also show a surprising lack of diversification in the subdiscipline. Research on the United States, Christianity, and most specifically Protestanti…
The End of Chavismo
Perhaps Maduro's biggest deficit is his personal lack of charisma in a government designed by, institutionalized around, and requiring a charismatic figure
We Created Chávez
Minority Participation and Well-Being in Majority Catholic Nations
The Sources of Cultural Power
Crime and Revolution in Venezuela
Figure 1 Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: The Relationship of Poverty and HomicideSource: Poverty data from data.worldbank.org; homicide data from the Ministerio del Poder Popular para Interior y
Religions and Social Progress
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Sociology (24 works) · Political science (19 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Social science (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Religion and Society in Latin America (8 works)