Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia by Rio, Knut

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319560670)

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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia by Rio, Knut

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

$31.00
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia by Rio, Knut

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

$31.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.


Author: Knut Rio
ISBN-10: 3319560670
ISBN-13: 9783319560670
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2017
Pages: 311
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d
By Knut Rio
By Knut Rio
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Knut Rio is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway
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 Cient?icas in Spain

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