In the Guardian, Tom Phillips profiles Jean Wyllys, Brazil’s first openly gay MP—and explores the growing political voice of the country’s far-right evangelical leaders who oppose him.
Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’
April 18th, 2011
De-provincializing Oprah
posted by Manuel A. Vásquez
In Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, Kathryn Lofton holds up a lustrous mirror to the polymorphously perverse dynamics of boom and bust, surplus and lack, and redemptive optimism and paranoid anxiety that characterize America (and much of the world) at the turn of the twenty-first century…. [Her] insight into the intense and extensive contemporary intra-activity of materiality and spirituality is a powerful explanatory tool. For example, it helps explain the explosive growth of global Neo-Pentecostal networks and cultures, which operate through mass media and popular culture to spread a gospel of health and wealth based on the notion that spiritual salvation, economic success, and physical well-being are mutually implicative.
July 23rd, 2010
A third Jewish temple?
posted by Jake Alter1,940 years after the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple, a building plan has been authorized in São Paulo, Brazil to build a 180 foot high replica of Solomon’s Temple. The replica will serve as an evangelical Christian church that will be able to seat 10,000 people. Modern technology will allow this edifice to be constructed in four years. It is thought that it took twenty-three years to build the Second Temple over 2,000 years ago.
April 5th, 2010
Islam on the rise in Brazil’s favelas
posted by Sam HanAt Shadow and Act, Tambay Obenson posted a video about the rise of Islam in Brazil’s favelas. The clip, from France 24′s This Week in the Americas feature, interviews mostly young Muslim men who were introduced to Islam, interestingly, through American hip hop music.
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