Helena Hansen Addicted to Christ (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: Addicted to Christ Condition: New EAN: 9780520298033 ISBN: 9780520298033 Publisher: University of California Press Format: Hardback Release Date: 04/20/2018 Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 20mm Item Weight: 454g Author: Helena Hansen Language: English Subtitle: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries ISBN-10: 0520298039 Description: How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? In Addicted to Christ, Helena Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black and Latino neighborhoods in the U.S. mainland. Richly ethnographic, the book harmoniously melds Hansen’s dual expertise in cultural anthropology and psychiatry. Through the stories of ministry converts, she examines key elements of Pentecostalism: mysticism, ascetic practice, and the idea of other-worldliness. She then reconstructs the ministries' strategies of spiritual victory over addiction: transformation techniques to build spiritual strength and authority through pain and discipline; cultivation of alternative masculinities based on male converts’ reclamation of domestic space; and radical rupture from a post-industrial “culture of disposability.” By contrasting the ministries’ logic of addiction with that of biomedicine, Hansen rethinks roads to recovery, discovering unexpected convergences with biomedicine while revealing the allure of street corner ministries. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture Release Year: 2018 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
