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Pentecostalism in Brazil Emotion of the Poor and Theological Romanticism

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ISBN-10: 0312225067

ISBN-13: 9780312225063

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Andre Corten, Andri Corten, Andr Corten

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 10/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 206
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Andre Corten is a Professor in the Departement de Sciences Politiques, Universite du Quebec � Montr�al.Ruth Marshall-Fratani is a Research Fellow in the Africa Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Preface
Introduction
Participation and the Poor: Liberation Theology
Liberation theology: narrated histories and narrative critique
The term 'liberation theology'
A triple topography: pedagogical, theological, Marxist
'Popular heresy'
'Scholarly heresy'
Submitting to arbitration
The poor in theological Romanticism
The Holy Spirit: praise and silence
Emotion and the Poor: Pentecostalism (I)
An ethnologist's description preceded by a few doctrinal points
Methodist or African origin? A transnational topography
Topography (continued): popular war of religions and multiplication of Churches
'Speaking in tongues': a free emotional experience
Singing: a method of emotion
Free speech
Emotion and the Poor: Pentecostalism (II)
The birth of Pentecostalism in Brazil
Some statistics (1900-2000)
The second wave: 'divine healing' or compassion
The third wave: televangelism. Consolation
Collection or extortion?
The Devil and 'liberation'
Pentecostalism among the poor
The Left and the 'Passion of the Base'
Activists and the base: the setting into discourse of 'common sense'
A party of the salaried middle classes?
Ecumenism and the Left
Moralization and the poor
Praise: an Original Utterance
Primary utterances: contract/demand/praise
Enunciative structure and natural semantics of the political field
Praise and glossolalia
The poor as addressees/discursive work on the referent of 'poverty'
A clergy of emotion?
'Acceptability' and political language
Piety and Prosperity
The Catholic paradigm of double morality
Impoverishment and conversion
Testing some Weberian theses
The theology of prosperity: a Gnostic influence
Miracles: the narrative of the plausible
Divine healing or hygienics?
Piety and privatization
The Sect: the Anti-Politics of the Poor
From sect to Church
Pentecostalism in Latin America: 'withdrawal from society' or 'anti-politics'
Political non-respectability
'Middle-class' respectability
Emotional clergy/scholarly clergy
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index