The Charismatic GymnasiumIn The Charismatic Gymnasium Maria Jos de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total power through a concatenation of the breathing body, theology, and electronic mass media. De Abreu documents a vast religious respiratory program of revival popularly branded as the aerobics of Jesus. Pneumathe Greek term for air, breath, and spiritis central to this aerobic program, whose goal is to labor on the