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Resource Type:	Books
Language:	English
Location:	177/5/1
Date:	2017
Author/Creator:	Rio, Knut ; MacArthy, Michelle ; Blanes, Ruy. More by Creator Search Periodicals Using this Creator
Title:	Pentecostalism and witchcraft : spiritual warfare in Africa and Melanesia $c / edited by Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy, and Ruy Blanes.
Publisher:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2017.
Format:	xi, 311 p. ; 22 cm.
Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Contemporary anthropology of religion. 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 / Aletta Biersack.
Subject:	Spiritual warfare--Africa. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Christianity and occult sciences--Africa. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Witchcraft--Africa. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Witchcraft--Melanesia. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Pentecostalism--Africa. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject
Date Cataloged:	01/05/2021

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