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family, my wife did not leave me and always supported to me. Today I am a different, responsible person and who takes care of his family\u2019 (L8LDG).\u000ATo sum up, it can be affirmed that the NPS promotes women\u2019s dignity and provides certain spaces for them to exert leadership. Their belief in male authority over women does not necessarily prevent them from encouraging the role of women, but it does not mean either that while recognizing their role they would transfer this immediately to the widest contexts of society. Also, this new perspective for women does not mean necessarily that all wives are treated well, that men assume roles that women usually carry out, or that women are never abused. A deeper study is needed in order to know more about these issues.\u000AE. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT\u000ABernardo Kliksberg affirms that religions have an impact on the present social agenda around the world. He indicates that, \u2018Beyond any theoretical hypothesis on the matter, important sectors of the religious world are acting every day in a very concrete way to confront problems\u2019.143 Mariz from the analysis of poverty in Brazil emphasizes that \u2018Pentecostalism has been efficient in supporting individuals in situations of extreme deprivation or family crisis\u2019, and for that reason, he affirms that the analysis of their role \u2018in the daily fight of confrontation with poverty can contribute to understanding the process of cultural and social change in the poor classes\u2019 (In Benjam\u00EDn Guti\u00E9rrez 1995: 204- 218).\u000AMartin maintains that the Evangelical religion and economic advance often go together and when they do it seems that they mutually lean and reinforce one another (1990: 206, 219). He underlines that Pentecostalism, whose central axis constitutes a network of brothers and sisters, especially causes social and economic advance between the poor. Gooren in his study on Pentecostal lower class entrepreneurs (as well as some\u000A143 \u2018El impacto de las religiones sobre la agenda social actual\u2019, in Instituciones y Desarrollo Institucional para una Gobernabilidad Democr\u00E1tica. Edici\u00F3n 19. 10/1/ 2006. Available at http://www.iigov.org/id/article.drt?edi=305110&art=305169 Accessed on 10/1/06.\u000A 308\u000A