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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Pentecostal Witchcraft: Governance and Universalism in Comparison
• 2. German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness
• 3. Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Sociality in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.- 4. The Ndoki Index: Sorcery, Economy and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere
• 5. Branhamist Kindoki: Ethnographic Notes on Connectivity, Technology and Urban Witchcraft in Contemporary Kinshasa
• 6. Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands.- 7. The Power of a Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro
• 8. Demons, Devils and Witches in Pentecostal Port Vila: On Changing Cosmologies of Evil in Melanesia.- 9. Turning the Tide: Visionary Children and Spiritual War on a Vanuatu Island.- 10. Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea
• 11. Witchcraft Simplex: Experiences of Globalized Pentecostalism in Central and Northwestern Tanzania.