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The Charismatic Gymnasium - Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Paperback)
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The Charismatic Gymnasium - Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Paperback)
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In The Charismatic Gymnasium Maria Jose 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.
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