Vote of Faith

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Maya Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her work explores religion, theology, politics, and gender in Brazil and beyond. She is the author of Gender, Morality and Catholicism in Brazil and co-editor of The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader.

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Contenu

Introduction | 1

1 Politics: Endless and Addictive | 31

2 Celibacy as Theopolitics | 53

3 Faith, Desire, and Machismo | 75

4 Virile Celibacy | 99

5 Votes of Faith: Force, Power, and Political Form | 125

6 The Miraculous and the Mundane | 150

Conclusion | 177

Epilogue | 187

Acknowledgments | 191

Notes | 193

Bibliography | 217

Index | 235