{"product_id":"vote-of-faith-democracy-desire-and-the-turbulent-lives-of-priest-politicians-paperback","title":"Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaya Mayblin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does desire have to reveal about the nature of power? Through a detailed focus on the lives and loves of Catholic priests as they enter the profane world of party politics, Maya Mayblin explores the complex intersection of democracy, patriarchy, and religiosity in Brazil. For over a hundred years, Catholic priests have been running for government office, challenging Brazil's constitutional separation of church and state and its self-image as a modern, secular nation. Priests find themselves walking a tightrope between religious and secular demands in one of Brazil's poorest regions. \u003ci\u003eVote of Faith \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautifully crafted ethnography based upon decades of fieldwork that tells the story of the ambiguous and frequently transgressive relationship between Catholicism and state governance, a relationship ultimately mediated by kinship, gender, and sexuality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the protagonists of \u003ci\u003eVote of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e, democracy becomes a sphere in which divine will and human ambition compete with one another, a tension embedded in the vernacular concept of faith. In the Brazilian context, faith signifies a complex set of assumptions about the nature of the world, assumptions derived not just from Christianity, but also from Afro-Brazilian and secular ideas about power, causation, and human agency. In combining ethnographic, theological, and feminist perspectives, \u003ci\u003eVote of Faith \u003c\/i\u003eplaces desiring bodies at the very heart of Catholicism's complex con-nection to multiple forms of power and offers provocative new angles on the question of the secular. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first work by an anthropologist to explore the unique phenomenon of the mayor-priest, this book offers an essential new angle on emerging debates about secularity as the condition of separation of the religious from the political. Brimming with originality, \u003ci\u003eVote of Faith \u003c\/i\u003eis required reading for those interested in the gendered and sexual dimensions of the secular, the plasticity of religion, and the fundamental nature of the world's largest religious institution.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaya Mayblin \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eGender, Morality and Catholicism in Brazil \u003c\/i\u003eand co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45542344786022,"sku":"9781531509095","price":76.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NycaMlabJa9781531509095.webp?v=1776937848","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/vote-of-faith-democracy-desire-and-the-turbulent-lives-of-priest-politicians-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}