Pentecostalism and Witchcraft : Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rio, Knut (Editor), MacCarthy, Michelle (Editor), Blanes, Ruy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Evangelicalism.; Religion and sociology.; Ethnology > Africa.; Ethnology.; Ethnography.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319560687
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7
• Physical Description: XI, 311 p. online resource.

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...