The Anti-Chair: pneuma and aesthetic politics at Santuário Mãe de Deus
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https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica2024.v56.i2.a59462Keywords:
Theology, Ritual, Monobloc-Chair, Sanctuary Mother Of God, Brazil.Abstract
The monobloc chair, a distinct icon of neoliberalism, activates a theological commitment embedded in the charismatic orthodoxy in Brazilian Catholicism. Intensifying a twilight zone between materiality and spirit, form and content, container and contained, the article aims to show how the monobloc chair is actively integrated into the crowded celebrations at Santuário Theotokos, Brazil. The argument refers to the monobloc chair as neither chair nor non-chair but as the remainder such double-negation itself segregates, thereby laying bare a new entity — an anti — chair into being. Such anti-chair, the article concludes, renders a theology of spirit (pneuma).
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