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Transmitting the Spirit:

Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil
  • ISBN-13: 9780271078434
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Martijn Oosterbaan
  • Price: AUD $184.00
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2017
  • Format: Hardback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: linguistics [CF]
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Examines Pentecostalism, media, society, and culture in the turbulent favelas of Brazil. Explores both the evolving role of religion in Latin America and the proliferation of religious ideas and practices in the postmodern world.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Manichean City: Socio-Spatial Segregation and Pentecostalism

2 Sonic Struggles: Sound, Religion, and Space in the Favelas

3 Mass Mediating Spiritual Battles: Pentecostalism and the Daily News

4 “Deliver This Favela”: Space, Violence, and Hypermediated Conversion

5 Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostalism and Listening

6 “Written by the Devil”: Suspicious Television

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Martijn Oosterbaan brilliantly plunges us into the vivid and dynamic worlds of contemporary Pentecostalism and Brazilian favelas. Based on many years of close observation, his analysis shows not only why Pentecostalism is popular in Brazilian city life, but also how it has become a deeply embedded aspect of national popular culture.”

—Simon Coleman, coeditor of The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism

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