Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia /

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia /

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This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presenc...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rio, Knut (Editor), MacCarthy, Michelle (Editor), Blanes, Ruy (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Evangelicalism.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology > Africa.
Ethnology.
Ethnography.
Social Sciences.
Social Anthropology.
Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism.
Religion and Society.
African Culture.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7
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Summary:This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology. .
Physical Description:XI, 311 p. online resource.
ISBN:9783319560687
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7
Access:Open Access

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