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Format: 1 online resource (253 p.)

ISBN: 9781478010296

Content: 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: 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 , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478010296

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478010296

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (233 Seiten)

Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]

ISBN: 9781478010296

Content: 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

Content: 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

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781478009719

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Abreu, Maria José A. de, - 1970- The charismatic gymnasium Durham : Duke University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781478009719

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781478011347

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1215/9781478010296

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 233 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-1-4780-1029-6

Content: 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

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Festeinband ISBN 978-1-478-00971-9

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Broschur ISBN 978-1-478-01134-7

Language: English

Keywords: Katholizismus ; Charismatische Bewegung

DOI: 10.1515/9781478010296

DOI: 10.1215/9781478010296

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Format: 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 233 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 1-4780-9045-6 , 1-4780-1029-0

Content: "Maria José A. de Abreu examines the conservative Charismatic Catholic movement in contemporary urban Brazil to rethink the relationship between theology, the body, and neoliberal governance, showing how it works to produce subjects who are complicit with Brazilian neoliberalism."--

Note: The Media Acts of the Apostles -- Confession, Technically Speaking -- Outstanding Elasticity -- The Aerobics of Jesus -- Operation Theotókos -- Ghost Chair -- Theology on the Run -- Slanted Operations

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4780-0971-3

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4780-1134-3

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478010296