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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft : Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia.

Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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