Pentecostalism and witchcraft : spiritual warfare in Africa and Melanesia /: spiritual warfare in Africa and Melanesia. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy, Ruy Blanes, editors.
• Editors: Rio, Knut Mikjel; MacCarthy, Michelle, 1976-; Blanes, Ruy Llera, 1976-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (XI, 311 pages)
• Subjects: 230; Pentecostalism -- Africa; Pentecostalism -- Melanesia; Witchcraft -- Africa; Witchcraft -- Melanesia; Religion: general; Ethnology; Evangelicalism; Religion and sociology; Social sciences; Africa
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319560687; 3319560689
• Related ISBNs: 9783319560670; 3319560670
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