Transmitting the Spirit : Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil /
"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
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2017]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.