Pentecostalism and Witchcraft : Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia.

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Main Author: Rio, Knut.
Other Authors: MacCarthy, Michelle., Blanes, Ruy.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Series
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505 0 |a Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia -- Introduction -- Sorcery, Witchcraft, and Pentecostalism -- Pentecostal Universalism and Global Spiritual Warfare -- Regional Comparisons in a Universalizing Movement -- Africa and Melanesia: A Comparison -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 2 German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness -- Introduction -- Witchcraft in Postcolonial Mozambique -- Hunting and Eating Children-the Uroi of Churches and Camps -- German Witches as a Recurring Destructive Force -- Cannibalism, Christianity and Colonialism: Partial Connections -- The German Witches: Utopian Horizons, Violent Egalitarianism and Predation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Social Change in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea -- Introduction -- Who Is Blocking the Road to Development? -- "The Witches Are Professionalizing" -- Apprehending the Witch -- Hidden Sin: Cain and Abel as Parable -- Conclusion: On Sight and Sociality, the Sinful and the Spiritual -- References -- Chapter 4 The Ndoki Index: Sorcery, Economy, and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere -- Introduction -- Invisible Notes Concerning Ndoki -- On Capitalist Sorcery -- Christian Ndokis -- Conclusion: Ndoki and Dow Jones -- References -- Chapter 5 Branhamist Kindoki: Ethnographic Notes on Connectivity, Technology, and Urban Witchcraft in Contemporary Kinshasa -- Introduction -- Witchcraft, Technology and the African City -- Technology and "African Witchcraft" -- Urban Connectivities -- Scientific Knowledge -- The Witchcraft Complex -- Concluding Thoughts: Urban Sociality and Kindoki -- References. 
505 8 |a Chapter 6 Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands -- Introduction -- Witchcraft and Sorcery in Comparison: The Massim and Beyond -- Malevolent Places, Bodies, and Metaphysics -- Equivalence and Influence -- What Makes a Witch a Witch and a Sorcerer a Sorcerer? -- Fear and Loathing: The Trobriand Witch and Pentecostal Redemption -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7 The Power of a Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro -- Introduction -- From Occult Economies to Modes of Being -- The Story of a Severed Arm -- Organs Without Body -- The Priest and the Witchcraft Snake -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Demons, Devils, and Witches in Pentecostal Port Vila: On Changing Cosmologies of Evil in Melanesia -- Introduction: Pentecostal Port Vila -- A City in Need of Protection -- Toward an Anthropology of Evil in Port Vila -- Overturning a Traditional Vocabulary -- Trust in God -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Spiritual War: Revival, Child Prophesies, and a Battle Over Sorcery in Vanuatu -- Introduction -- The Problem of Sorcery -- Hope in Revival -- The Revival Outbreaks in South West Bay -- Anointing Ahamb Island -- Spiritual War -- The Community Meeting. Fear, Life, Death, and a Clash Between World Views -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Chapter 10 Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea -- Introduction -- Health Education and the Problem of Tradition -- Pasin: An Undertheorized Concept -- Dangerous Pasin -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11 Witchcraft Simplex: Experiences of Globalized Pentecostalism in Central and Northwestern Tanzania -- Introduction -- The Pentecostalist Meaning of Witchcraft in Mono-centric Communities -- Exorcisms Compared -- Catholic Versus Charismatic Cosmologies in Congo and Tanzania. 
505 8 |a Simplex and Multiplex Experiences of Culture -- Pentecostal Demons Substituting for Multiplex Spirits -- From Spirit Biographies to the Globalized Frame of Spirit -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12 Afterword: Academics, Pentecostals, and Witches: The Struggle for Clarity and the Power of the Murky -- References -- Chapter 13 Afterword: From Witchcraft to the Pentecostal-Witchcraft Nexus -- Witchcraft -- The Pentecostal-Witchcraft Nexus -- References -- Index. 
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