Addicted to Christ : Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries / Helena Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Helena, Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Substance abuse--Religious aspects--Pentacostal churches.

Substance abuse.

Masculinity--Puerto Rico.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--Religious aspects--Pentacostal churches.

Recovery movement--Puerto Rico.

Recovery movement.

Recovery movement--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Cosmology of Conversion

2. On Discipline and Becoming a Disciple

3. Visitations and Gifts

4. The New Masculinity

5. Spiritual Mothers

6. Family Values

7. Bringing It Home

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520970168

0520970160

OCLC:

1028941313