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Author:
Oosterbaan, Martijn, 1975- author.
Title:
Transmitting the spirit : religious conversion, media, and urban violence in Brazil / Martijn Oosterbaan.
Publisher:
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Pentecostalism--Brazil.
Mass media--Brazil.
Mass media--Pentecostal churches.--Pentecostal churches.
Conversion--Pentecostal churces.
Slums--Rio de Janeiro.--Rio de Janeiro.
Urban violence--Brazil.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Manichean city : socio-spatial segregation and Pentecostalism -- Sonic struggles : sound, religion, and space in the favelas -- Mass mediating spiritual battles : Pentecostalism and the daily news -- "Deliver this favela" : space, violence, and hypermediated conversion -- Spiritual attunement : Pentecostalism and listening -- "Written by the devil" : suspicious television.
Summary:
"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"--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
027107843X
9780271078434
OCLC:
(OCoLC)976405844
LCCN:
2017006195
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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