Reason to Believe

David Smilde is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. He is co-author, with Margarita Lopez Maya and Keta Stephany, of Protesta y cultura en Venezuela: Los Marcos de accion colectiva en 1999.

• A Note on Translations and Names Acknowledgments PART ONE: BEGINNINGS 1. Making Sense of Cultural Agency 2. The Venezuelan Context: Confronting La Crisis PART TWO: IMAGINATIVE RATIONALITY 3. Imagining Social Life I: Confronting Akrasia, Crime, and Violence 4. Imagining Social Life II: Addressing Personal and Social Issues 5. Imagining Evangelical Practice PART THREE: RELATIONAL IMAGINATION 6. The Social Structure of Conversion 7. Two Lives, Five Years Later 8. Toward a Relational Pragmatic Theory of Cultural Agency Epilogue Appendix A: Status of Evangelical Respondents after Five Years Appendix B: Methods and Methodology Appendix C: Quantitative Analysis of Networks and Conversion Glossary of Spanish Terms References Index

"Within the context of a continuous social crisis, I consider Smilde's book a most valuable and helpful contribution in this field." Missiology