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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Соавтор: SpringerLink (Online service)
Другие авторы: Rio, Knut (Редактор), MacCarthy, Michelle (Редактор), Blanes, Ruy (Редактор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс eКнига
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Серии:Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Online-ссылка:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7
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Оглавление:
  • 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.