Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia /
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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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Col·lecció: | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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| Accés en línia: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7 |
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Taula de continguts:
- 1. Introduction: Pentecostal Witchcraft: Governance and Universalism in Comparison
- 2. German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness
- 3. Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Sociality in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.- 4. The Ndoki Index: Sorcery, Economy and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere
- 5. Branhamist Kindoki: Ethnographic Notes on Connectivity, Technology and Urban Witchcraft in Contemporary Kinshasa
- 6. Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands.- 7. The Power of a Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro
- 8. Demons, Devils and Witches in Pentecostal Port Vila: On Changing Cosmologies of Evil in Melanesia.- 9. Turning the Tide: Visionary Children and Spiritual War on a Vanuatu Island.- 10. Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea
- 11. Witchcraft Simplex: Experiences of Globalized Pentecostalism in Central and Northwestern Tanzania.