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The Charismatic Gymnasium - Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,295
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The Charismatic Gymnasium - Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Hardcover): Maria Jose de Abreu

The Charismatic Gymnasium - Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Hardcover)

Maria Jose de Abreu

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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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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2021
First published: 2020
Authors: Maria Jose de Abreu
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0971-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
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LSN: 1-4780-0971-3
Barcode: 9781478009719

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