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Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries

by Helena Hansen

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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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.
Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries and Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries
Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug MinistriesAddicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries

  • Title

    Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    April 2018

  • Weight

    341g

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520298040

  • ISBN-10

    0520298047

  • Eden Code

    4718809