Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

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eBook - ePub

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

About this book

This open accessbook 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.

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Yes, you can access Pentecostalism and Witchcraft by Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy, Ruy Blanes, Knut Rio,Michelle MacCarthy,Ruy Blanes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Christian Denominations. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontmatter
  3. 1. Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia
  4. 2. German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness
  5. 3. Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Social Change in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
  6. 4. The Ndoki Index: Sorcery, Economy, and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere
  7. 5. Branhamist Kindoki: Ethnographic Notes on Connectivity, Technology, and Urban Witchcraft in Contemporary Kinshasa
  8. 6. Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands
  9. 7. The Power of a Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro
  10. 8. Demons, Devils, and Witches in Pentecostal Port Vila: On Changing Cosmologies of Evil in Melanesia
  11. 9. Spiritual War: Revival, Child Prophesies, and a Battle Over Sorcery in Vanuatu
  12. 10. Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea
  13. 11. Witchcraft Simplex: Experiences of Globalized Pentecostalism in Central and Northwestern Tanzania
  14. 12. Afterword: Academics, Pentecostals, and Witches: The Struggle for Clarity and the Power of the Murky
  15. 13. Afterword: From Witchcraft to the Pentecostal-Witchcraft Nexus
  16. Backmatter