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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Contemporary anthropology of religion.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to Pentecostal witchcraft and spiritual politics in Africa and Melanesia / Knut Rio, Michelle Maccarthy and Ruy Blanes
- German Pentecostal witches and communists : the violence of purity and sameness / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen
- Becoming witches : sight, sin, and social change in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea / Thomas Strong
- The Ndoki index : sorcery, economy, and invisible operations in the Angolan urban sphere / Ruy Blanes
- Branhamist kindoki : ethnographic notes on connectivity, technology, and urban witchcraft in contemporary Kinshasa / Katrien Pype
- Jesus lives in me : Pentecostal conversions, witchcraft confessions, and gendered power in the Trobriand Islands / Michelle Maccarthy
- The power of a severed arm : life, witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro / Knut Christian Myhre
- Demons, devils, and witches in Pentecostal Port Vila : on changing cosmologies of evil in Melanesia / Annelin Eriksen and Knut Rio
- Spiritual war : revival, child prophesies, and a battle over sorcery in Vanuatu / Tom Bratrud
- Learning to believe in Papua New Guinea / Barbara Andersen
- Witchcraft simplex : experiences of globalized Pentecostalism in central and northwestern Tanzania / Koen Stroeken
- Afterword : academics, Pentecostals, and witches : the struggle for clarity and the power of the murky / Peter Geschiere
- Afterword : from witchcraft to the Pentecostal-witchcraft nexus / Alena Biersack.