Overview
- Juxtaposes case studies from Melanesia and Africa in order to better compare, contrast, and illuminate the effects of and engagements with Pentecostalism
- Focuses on chief themes of Pentecostalism and witchcraft while also bringing in discussions of globalization, visibility, movements of capital, and embodiment
- Presents rich and detailed case studies while also offering up wide-ranging theoretical analyses and critiques of established thinking/concepts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)
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Keywords
- Charismatic Christianity
- Holy Spirit
- Pentecostal witchcraft
- Pentecostal movements
- pentecostalisation
- demonology
- Pentecostal demonology
- ethnography
- Papua New Guinea
- Vanuatu
- Congo
- Mozambique
- Tanzania
- indigenous Pentecostal movements
- Christian evangelism
- sorcery
- Oceania
- Open Access
- religion and society
Table of contents (13 chapters)
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michelle MacCarthy is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway
Ruy Blanes is a Ramon y Cajal fellow at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Spain
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
Book Subtitle: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia
Editors: Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy, Ruy Blanes
Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56067-0Published: 10 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85819-7Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56068-7Published: 29 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3475
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 311
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, Religion and Society, African Culture