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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
R3,652 R2,295 Discovery Miles 22 950 Save R1,357 (37%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Charismatic Gymnasium - Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Paperback): Maria Jose de Abreu The Charismatic Gymnasium - Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Paperback)
Maria Jose de Abreu
R918 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R279 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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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