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Description

1. xviii, 210 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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 managed by self-identified 'ex-addicts.' Richly ethnographic, the book melds Hansen's dual expertise in public anthropology and psychology. Through her interviewees' stories, she examines key elements of the Pentecostal system: mysticism, ascetic practice, and the idea other-worldliness. She then shares the strategies of Pentecostal ministries, which, according to street ministries, are the core elements 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 while discovering unexpected convergences with biomedicine, revealing the true sway of street corner ministries" --

Subject

1. Masculinity
2. Recovery movement
3. Puerto Rico
4. Masculinity > Puerto Rico
5. Masculinity > Religious aspects > Pentacostal churches
6. Recovery movement > Puerto Rico
7. Recovery movement > Religious aspects > Christianity
8. Substance abuse > Religious aspects > Pentacostal churches

Contents

1. The cosmology of conversion -- On discipline, and becoming a disciple -- Visitations and gifts -- The new masculinity -- Spiritual mothers -- Family values -- Bringing it home.

Call number

1. JFE 18-5870

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-201) and index.

Author

1. Hansen, Helena, 1969- author.

Title

1. Addicted to Christ : remaking men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal drug ministries / Helena Hansen.

Publisher

1. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-201) and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Hansen, Helena, 1969- Addicted to Christ. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520970168 (DLC) 2017050267

LCCN

1. 2017045427

ISBN

1. 9780520298033 hardcover ; alkaline paper
2. 0520298039 hardcover ; alkaline paper
3. 9780520298040 paperback ; alkaline paper
4. 0520298047 paperback ; alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFE 18-5870