Pentecostalism and witchcraft : spiritual warfare in Africa and Melanesia /
This 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 witche...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Contemporary anthropology of religion.
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| Summary: | This 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 remolded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 311 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783319560670 3319560670 |