Formally speaking (literally), tautology operates like a pendulum in motion. Valued for its practical rather than propositional aspect, tautological speech is highly rhythmic. In this form of Catholic revivalism, tautology is deployed as and through a particular theatrics. In its most elementary form, a tautology is a logical proposition whereby something is made true via repetition of the same (tautos) statement. The technique is not always transparent, as when the stage itself is set up on stage, or the auditorium is extended onto the stage-area.-Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama In this article I analyze the role of tautology in Catholic Charismatic religious performances in Brazil. These aims converge in a reflection on the nature of political theater within and beyond political theology. Third, to expose how Charismatic practice both mirrors and anticipates the unfolding dramaturgy of sovereignty within current popu-lism in Brazil and elsewhere. Second, to analyze the formal structure of tautology as an embodied regime of citationality. First, to identify the function of tautology in Catholic Charismatic religious practices. Theopolitics refers to a sovereignty from below characterized by vulnerability and openness to an ever-provisional messianic force that partakes in history, including the colonial history of anthropology itself.Įxpected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 50 is August 2021. We conclude by proposing a conceptual counter to political theology, grounded in negative theology as well as critical theories drawing on the force of the negative, which we call theopolitics. In so doing, we recover a potential opening to theistic force that anthropology has long fought to foreclose. In this review, we read gestures to this analogy's limits in recent ethnographies of the state, vital force, and the Anthropocene as also pointing to the limits of anthropology's secularity and its embedding in the colonial enterprise. Anthropological work on political theology has been informed by Agamben's work on the state of exception and, thus, by a Schmittian account of sovereignty as analogous to that of the God who bestows miracles.
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