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Addicted to Christ - Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries (Hardcover)
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Addicted to Christ - Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries (Hardcover)
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How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in
street ministries? In Addicted to Christ, Helena Hansen provides an
in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that
were founded and run by self-identified "ex-addicts," ministries
that are also widespread in poor Black and Latino neighborhoods in
the U.S. mainland. Richly ethnographic, the book harmoniously melds
Hansen's dual expertise in cultural anthropology and psychiatry.
Through the stories of ministry converts, she examines key elements
of Pentecostalism: mysticism, ascetic practice, and the idea of
other-worldliness. She then reconstructs the ministries' strategies
of spiritual victory over addiction: transformation techniques to
build spiritual strength and authority through pain and discipline;
cultivation of alternative masculinities based on male converts'
reclamation of domestic space; and radical rupture from a
post-industrial "culture of disposability." By contrasting the
ministries' logic of addiction with that of biomedicine, Hansen
rethinks roads to recovery, discovering unexpected convergences
with biomedicine while revealing the allure of street corner
ministries.
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