The image of the devil as production of presence in Contemporary Neopentecostalism: Raids in Christian heavy metal

Authors

  • Angela Mastella Coradini Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT)
  • Dolores Galindo Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/ver.2018.32.81.06

Abstract

In this text, we argue that there is a double production of presence in Christian heavy metal shows. The Devil, who is constituted as a presence, through materialities, at first secular, which, disinterested, act in the Christian metal. First, the presence of God, in the Word, taken as an actualization of the Divine in its material dimension, invoked to purge and banish the image of the devil situated in the individual form or in the form of the legions assigned to it. Second, through organized practices in the form of ministries in charge of the so-called spiritual battles. Making diabolic gifts present and then denying them is a crusade daily reaffirmed in the Christian metal. The text has as theoretical contribution the studies on production of presence of Hans Gumbrecht (2010–2015) and field research content on Christian heavy metal, and aims at contributing to delineate one of contemporary neopentecostal practices and to discuss the articulations between ministries created to combat the devil and the heavy metal music linked to the biblical discourse.

Keywords: devil, Christian heavy metal, neopentecostalism, production of presence.

Author Biographies

Angela Mastella Coradini, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT)

Doutoranda e Mestre no Programa de Pós-graduação em Cultura Contemporânea da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), com Doutorado Sanduíche, em andamento, pelo PDSE da Capes, na Universidade do Algarve, Portugal.

Dolores Galindo, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT).

Professora Permanente dos Programas de Pós-Graduação Cultura Contemporânea da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT) e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia e Sociedade da Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus Assis. Doutora (2006) em Psicologia Social pela Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP), com Doutorado Sanduíche na Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (2004) e Pós-Doutorado em Psicologia Social na PUCSP (2015-2016).

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Published

2018-11-30

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 81 (2018)

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