Pentecostalism and Witchcraft [electronic resource] : Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

• Tác giả: Ruy Blanes, Michelle MacCarthy, Knut Rio
• Ngôn ngữ: ger
• ISBN-13: 978-3319560687
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 306 Culture and institutions
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: XI, 311 p. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 169941
• Chủ đề: 1. Ethnography; 2. Ethnology; 3. Ethnology-Africa; 4. Evangelicalism; 5. Religion and sociology; 6. Social Anthropology; 7. African Culture; 9. Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism; 10. Religion and Society

Tóm tắt

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 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. .