GALINDO, Dolores Cristina Gomes.; CORADINI, Angela Mastella.
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 irst 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 batles. Making diabolic gifts
present and then denying them is a crusade daily
reairmed in the Christian metal. The text has as
theoretical contribution the studies on production
of presence of Hans Gumbrecht (2010–2015) and
ield 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.
