Ungraceful God: Masculinity and Images of God in Brazilian Popular Culture
The article investigates how God is represented in popular culture, especially in music, in Brazil. It gives a general background about Brazilian culture showing how religion is part of the identity constructions of Brazilian people and how it is marked by multiplicity, syncretism and hybridization....
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2009
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Theology & sexuality
Année: 2009, Volume: 15, Numéro: 2, Pages: 145-157 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Masculinity
B Images of God B Religion B Brazil B Popular Culture |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Électronique
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| Résumé: | The article investigates how God is represented in popular culture, especially in music, in Brazil. It gives a general background about Brazilian culture showing how religion is part of the identity constructions of Brazilian people and how it is marked by multiplicity, syncretism and hybridization. It then analyses two popular songs that make explicit statements about "who God is" and how those statements are related to traditional masculine gender constructions. Finally, the article discusses how issues of masculinity and religion have been approached in recent scholarship and points to the need for other ways of imagining God that are related to people's experience. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/tse.v15i2.145 |