"On Liberation: Crack, Christianity, and Captivity in Postwar Guatemala City"

Pentecostal rehabilitation centers are on the rise in Guatemala City. Linked to a postwar spike in street crime and the spread of crack cocaine, these compulsory centers usher in a new genre of captivity while also providing a window onto the practice of Christian liberation today. A cultural anthropologist, Kevin Lewis O¿Neill is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Rooted in more than a dozen years of fieldwork on postwar Guatemala City, his ethnographic work addresses new forms of Christianity and questions of governance.For more information, please contact Maria Maschauer at (919) 684-5255.