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Worldings: the aesthetics of authority among Catholic Charismatics in Brazil

2015; Taylor & Francis; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14755610.2015.1058529

0143-8301

Maria José A. de Abreu,

Religious Tourism and Spaces

In this article, I show how conceptions of religious authority among Catholic Charismatics in Brazil relate to particular aesthetic regimes. By aesthetic regime I mean the processes of decision-making by which a particular economy of the visible is negotiated and situated, the underlying forces that constitute what is sensory apprehensible and what remains latent, one might say, unworlded. Focusing on the relation Catholic Charismatics have with the statue of Christ Redeemer standing at the Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro, the text engages with the material politics of this religious movement and the theological domains that undergird it.