...Martijn Oosterbaan This article explores the ways in which Pentecostal media, especially electro-acoustic media, are integrated in the everyday life of a favela in Rio de Janeiro. It argues that the popularity of Pentecostal radio has to be understood in relation to the sociocultural meaning...

... Guatemala. With this drastic increase has come a spike in the use of crack cocaine, as well as the proliferation of drug rehabilitation centers. Run by Pentecostal Christians, these centers warehouse users (against their will) in the name of liberation. Locked up, tied up, and told to shape up, these users...

... of new modes of transnational Pentecostalism. A central concern is how Deedat draws on forms of secular critique and biblical hermeneutics as part of his call for da'wa (religious awakening) among Muslims. It draws on close textual analysis of writings and video cassettes to tease out the formal...

... of constituency for provincializing Europe flourishes. Some of the fastest-growing sectors of Christianity — Pentecostalism, a religion of the Mormonism, the “abundant life” movement — responded directly to the collapse...

... responses to liberalization in Kenya has been the rapid proliferation of Pentecostal charismatic Christianity. Reasons for evangelism’s expansion into the spaces vacated by the state are complicated and vary from location to location, but scholars have...

... also lies in its irreverent, ambiva- lent relationship both to marketization and to neo-­Pentecostal Christianity, which have reshaped public life in Ghana — and many locales — in recent decades.20 In the mid-­1980s, Ghana began privatizing state resources through International Monetary Fund...

.... The latter wished to be faithful to the secluded nature associated with the original community of Pentecost, which also inspired the original group from which the CCR movement originated. The event took place on Feb- ruary 1967 when a group of scholars and students at Duquesne University...

... Brian Larkin 101 Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostal Radio in the Soundscape of a Favela in Rio de Janeiro  •  Martijn Oosterbaan 123 Contributors Maria José A. de Abreu is a doctoral student in the Amsterdam School of Social Science...

... existential articulations of living that makes Indian fi lms resonate with other articulations of insecurity—Pentecostalism, witchcraft, Wahhabi Islam—but without those networks’ means of tying these cultural expres- sions to real material networks of support. Bandiri music depends on this traffi cking...

... Elijah Muhammad’s and Louis Farrakhan’s. 9 Both Baldwin and Malcolm X were Harlem transplants from the South with Pentecostal upbringings and religious awakenings that helped fuel their fights for racial justice. They circled and trailed each other on their speaking tours of the South in early 1963...

... Asia? The current vogue of Pentecostalism and Sayd Qutb in the new slums of Latin America, Africa, and Asia may be permanent hegemonies or, then again, the urban poor’s version of the peasant millenarian movements and anticolonial...

... Dead Language João Biehl There is a place in the South of Brazil called Vita. Vita was founded in 1987 by Zé das Drogas, a former street kid and drug dealer. After having converted to Pentecostalism, Zé had a vision in which the Spirit told him...

... qualities. There, in the overcrowded and sometimes violent neighborhood of the favela, Pentecostal music competes with the secular world of samba, the perceived degenerate qualities of the latter remaining a continual threat to the former’s own claim...

.... For an insightful analysis of horror within Ghana’s Pentecostal film indus- try, see Birgit Meyer, “Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision, and Video Technology in Ghana,” in Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere, ed. Bir- git...

... das Drogas, a former street kid and drug dealer. After having converted to Pentecostalism, Zé had a vision in which the Spirit told him to open a place where people like him could find God and regenerate. Zé and his religious friends squatted private property near...

... and Pentecostal mother), childhood episodes of violence (at the hands of family members and close relations), years of adolescent rebellion (a runaway’s journal of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll), and an adult life where Alfaro continually works...

... sacrifice is that an explicitly Christian morality guides its actions against al-Shabaab. Everyday politics both feed into and reflect a Christian majority sensibility that has increasingly assumed a Pentecostal, evangelical tone. 80 Because the military's role in Somalia is primarily framed...

... elections globally have been marked by security discourses backed by a resurgent militarism. In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro drew on his military background to form a governing alliance of militarized actors and Pentecostal conservatives in 2018. In India, Narendra Modi won the 2019 prime ministerial election...

... of sorts, we can also think with the transcendental possibilities of sweat. Here, I am thinking most explicitly with Anthony Pinn's analysis of sweat in the context of the black Pentecostal church. Sweat, he argues, marks as “the body as a bio-chemical reality meant for labor, or it might serve as a sign...

... Pentecostal Christian churches and drug dealers, which directly threatened the Afro-Brazilian priests and priestesses, sometimes forcing their eviction. 22 Nevertheless, the quilombo past remains a unifying narrative, even if the religious aspects of the African heritage are shunned by some conservative...