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Author Hansen, Helena, 1969- author.

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

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The cosmology of conversion -- On discipline, and becoming a disciple -- Visitations and gifts -- The new masculinity -- Spiritual mothers -- Family values -- Bringing it home.
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Recovery movement -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Recovery movement -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Recovery movement -- Puerto Rico.
Recovery movement.
Puerto Rico.
Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Pentacostal churches.
Masculinity -- Religious aspects.
Masculinity -- Puerto Rico.
Substance abuse -- Religious aspects -- Pentacostal churches.
Substance abuse -- Religious aspects.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
Masculinity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hansen, Helena, 1969- Addicted to Christ. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520298033 (DLC) 2017045427
ISBN 9780520970168 (electronic book)
0520970160 (electronic book)
9780520298033 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0520298039 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780520298040
0520298047