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At-Large Lectures on Religion Series by Manuel Vasquez

Manuel Vasquez
March 6, 2014
All Day
165 Thompson Library 1858 Neil Ave Mall Columbus, OH 43210

"Materiality, Globalization, and the Aesthetics of Latin American and African Pentecostalisms"

by Manuel Vasquez
Professor of Religion
University of Florida

This presentation explores the conditions that have facilitated the global spread of Latin American and African Pentecostalisms.  Focusing on the Brazilian Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and Nigerian the Redeemed Christian Church of God, two  Neo-Pentecostals transnational churches which are spearheading this global dissemination, I argue that the great portability of Latin American and African Pentecostalisms is in large part due to the strategic use of embodied, performative technologies of self and an animated materiality, the efficaciousness of which is both a sign of and an instrument for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.  The efficaciousness of  Latin American and African neo-Pentecostal visceral aesthetics also dovetails with the dynamics of an electronically-mediated global capitalism.
 

Reception to follow
All are welcome


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