ISBN:
9781478010296
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (233 Seiten)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Abreu, Maria José A. de, - 1970- The charismatic gymnasium
Keywords:
Anthropology of religion
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Christianity
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Leadership Religious aspects
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Catholic Church
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Religion and politics
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface: Breathe In. Breathe Out -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1. The Media Acts of the Apostles -- 2. Confession, Technically Speaking -- 3. Outstanding Elasticity -- PART II -- 4. The Aerobics of Jesus -- 5. Sanctuary Theotókos: A Conception -- 6. Ghost Chair -- Epilogue: Theology on the Run -- Afterword: On Bipolarity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
In The Charismatic Gymnasium Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total power through a concatenation of the breathing body, theology, and electronic mass media. De Abreu documents a vast religious respiratory program of revival popularly branded as “the aerobics of Jesus.” Pneuma—the Greek term for air, breath, and spirit—is central to this aerobic program, whose goal is to labor on the athletic elasticity of spirit. Tracing the rhetoric, gestures, and spaces that together constitute this new theological community, de Abreu exposes the articulating forces among evangelical Christianity, neoliberal logics, and the rise of right-wing politics. By calling attention to how an ethics of pauperism vitally intersects with the neoliberal ethos of flexibility, de Abreu shows how paradoxes do not hinder but expand the Charismatic gymnasium. The result, de Abreu demonstrates, is the production of a fluid form of totalitarianism and Christianity in Brazil and beyond.
Note:
In English
DOI:
10.1215/9781478010296
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