Blanes, Ruy
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
1. Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia
Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy, Ruy Blanes
2. German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
3. Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Social Change in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Thomas Strong
4. The Ndoki Index: Sorcery, Economy, and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere
Ruy Blanes
5. Branhamist
Katrien Pype
6. Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands
Michelle MacCarthy
7. The Power of a Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro
Knut Christian Myhre
8. Demons, Devils, and Witches in Pentecostal Port Vila: On Changing Cosmologies of Evil in Melanesia
Annelin Eriksen, Knut Rio
9. Spiritual War: Revival, Child Prophesies, and a Battle Over Sorcery in Vanuatu
Tom Bratrud
10. Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea
Barbara Andersen
11. Witchcraft Simplex: Experiences of Globalized Pentecostalism in Central and Northwestern Tanzania
Koen Stroeken
12. Afterword: Academics, Pentecostals, and Witches: The Struggle for Clarity and the Power of the Murky
Peter Geschiere
13. Afterword: From Witchcraft to the Pentecostal-Witchcraft Nexus
Aletta Biersack
Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, Religion and Society, African Culture
- Editor
- Blanes, Ruy
- MacCarthy, Michelle
- Rio, Knut
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
- Page amount
- 11 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319560687
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-56067-0