Pentecostalism and witchcraft : spiritual warfare in Africa and Melanesia / Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy, Ruy Blanes, editors.
Rio, Knut Mikjel, editor.; MacCarthy, Michelle, 1976- editor.; Blanes, Ruy Llera, 1976- editor.
2017
BR1644.5.A35 P464 2017
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Title
Pentecostalism and witchcraft : spiritual warfare in Africa and Melanesia / Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy, Ruy Blanes, editors.
ISBN
9783319560687
3319560689
9783319560670
3319560670
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 311 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7 doi
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BR1644.5.A35 P464 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
230 DE-101
Summary
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 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 re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.
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Rio, Knut Mikjel, editor.
MacCarthy, Michelle, 1976- editor.
Blanes, Ruy Llera, 1976- editor.
Series
Contemporary anthropology of religion.
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