Portable power, religious swag: mediating authority in Brazilian Neo-Pentecostalism
This study is an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of religious objects, their uses, and mediation of authority within the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Universal Church) in Brazil. Drawing on scholarship within media studies, religion and media, and material religion, I distinguish bet...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2018]
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Material religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 389-413 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brazil
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Sacred object
/ Power
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBR Latin America KDG Free church |
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material microstructure
B religious objects B Universal Church of the Kingdom of God B religion and media B Authority B Neo-pentecostalism B Brazil B Mediation |
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