Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

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 presenc...

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Egile nagusia: Knut Rio (auth)
Beste egile batzuk: Michelle MacCarthy (auth), Ruy Blanes (auth)
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Argitaratua: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
Saila:Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Gaia: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.
Deskribapen fisikoa:1 electronic resource (311 p.)
ISBN:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7
9783319560687
9783319560670
Sartu:Open Access