Rio, Knut / Ruy Blanes et al (Hrsg.). Pentecostalism and Witchcraft - Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia
  • Springer International Publishing
  • 2017
  • Gebunden
  • 324 Seiten
  • ISBN 9783319560670
Herausgeber: Knut Rio / Ruy Blanes / Michelle MacCarthy

This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesiäwhere 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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