Breathing Flesh and the Sound of BlackPentecostalism
“Breathing Flesh and the Sound of BlackPentecostalism” constructs a theory of history embedded in the performance and transference of breath as the necessary physiological and spiritual force that is the constitutive element of BlackPentecostal performative production. As breath is the vivifying for...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2013
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| In: |
Theology & sexuality
Year: 2013, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-60 |
| Further subjects: | B
Blackness
B Homiletics B Pentecostalism B whooping |
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| Summary: | “Breathing Flesh and the Sound of BlackPentecostalism” constructs a theory of history embedded in the performance and transference of breath as the necessary physiological and spiritual force that is the constitutive element of BlackPentecostal performative production. As breath is the vivifying force enlivening and quickening flesh, this essay attempts to outline another mode of existence in the world, through performance, that is a critique of normative theologizing and philosophizing. The essay considers how breathing itself — through aestheticized approaches — is a means to speak back and against violence and violation. As breath was interdicted — through whippings, through language lost and acquired, through lynchings — as a basis of modernity, I analyze the “whooping” practices of BlackPentecostal preachers to elaborate the intentionality of breathing practices as a necessary corrective. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1179/1355835814Z.00000000021 |