Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Manichean City: Socio-Spatial Segregation and Pentecostalism
2 Sonic Struggles: Sound, Religion, and Space in the Favelas
3 Mass Mediating Spiritual Battles: Pentecostalism and the Daily News
4 “Deliver This Favela”: Space, Violence, and Hypermediated Conversion
5 Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostalism and Listening
6 “Written by the Devil”: Suspicious Television
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Martijn Oosterbaan is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.
“A detailed, sympathetic analysis of favela religion in relation to
secular media. . . . Highly recommended.”—S. D. Glazier Choice
“Marks an undoubted step forward in the interpretation of a
phenomenon which remains abundantly described but continues to cry
out for creative interpretation.”—David Lehmann Journal of Latin
American Studies
“Scholars and students from a variety of disciplines—including
anthropology, communications studies, religious studies, and
political science for example—will find something of use and
interest within the pages of this book.”—H. J. Francois Dengah II
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
“Martijn Oosterbaan not only provides an ethnography of Brazilian
Pentecostalism but also shows how this premodern faith enables
survival amid the violence of the favelas that are the underside of
Rio’s modernity. Transmitting the Spirit also depicts how an
otherworldly Pentecostal piety traverses the sonic and electronic
currents of the present late modern age. Spiritual power in the
South American Pentecostal hemisphere resounds in this excellent
book.”—Amos Yong, coeditor of The Spirit of Praise: Music and
Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
“Martijn Oosterbaan brilliantly plunges us into the vivid and
dynamic worlds of contemporary Pentecostalism and Brazilian
favelas. Based on many years of close observation, his analysis
shows not only why Pentecostalism is popular in Brazilian city
life, but also how it has become a deeply embedded aspect of
national popular culture.”—Simon Coleman, coeditor of The
Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism
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