Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this volume analyses the phenomenon of deliverance - which is promoted both in charismatic churches and in Islam as a weapon against witchcraft - in order to clarify the political dimensions of spiritual warfare in contemporary African societies. Deliverance from evil is part and parcel of the contemporary discourse on the struggle against witchcraft in most African contexts. However, contributors show how its importance extends beyond this, highlighting a pluralism of approaches to deliverance in geographically distant…mehr
Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this volume analyses the phenomenon of deliverance - which is promoted both in charismatic churches and in Islam as a weapon against witchcraft - in order to clarify the political dimensions of spiritual warfare in contemporary African societies. Deliverance from evil is part and parcel of the contemporary discourse on the struggle against witchcraft in most African contexts. However, contributors show how its importance extends beyond this, highlighting a pluralism of approaches to deliverance in geographically distant religious movements, which coexist in Africa. Against this background, the book reflects on the responsibilities of Pentecostal deliverance politics within the condition of 'epistemic anxiety' of contemporary African societies - to shed light on complex relational dimensions in which individual deliverance is part of a wider social and spiritual struggle. Spanning across the study of religion, healing and politics, this book contributes to ongoing debates about witchcraft and deliverance in Africa.
Sandra Fancello is Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research, France. Alessandro Gusman is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Turin, Italy.
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List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin Italy) and Sandra Fancello (CNRS-IMAF France) Part I - Deliverance and Spiritual Insecurity 1. Battling Satan's Minions: Christian-Muslim Entanglements in an Age of Spiritual Insecurity Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University USA) 2. Deliverance Centers Spiritual Insecurity and a Pragmatic Approach to Healing in Ugandan Pentecostalism Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin Italy) 3. Everyday Deliverances in Tanzania Martin Lindhardt (Syddansk Universitet Denmark) Part II - Charismatic Healing in the Markets of Well-Being 4. Kapopo the "Incurable Illness" Structural Violence Social Suffering and Spiritual Healers in the Democratic Republic of Congo Edoardo Quaretta (University of Turin Italy) 5. Resisting Deliverance: Majini Spirits Matriliny and Religious Change in Northern Mozambiqu Daria Trentini (Drake University USA) 6. Churches against Hospitals? Deliverance and healers in the field of public health Sandra Fancello (CNRS-IMAF France) Part III - Healing and Social Change 7. Healers vs. Prayer Teams: Contesting Deliverance and Healing among Ugandan Charismatic Catholics Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (Australian Catholic University Australia) 8. Staking out God's Kingdom: Moral Geographies Land and Healing in Southern African Charismatic Christian Farming Hans Olsson and Karen Lauterbach (University of Copenhagen Denmark) 9. Possessed by the post-Socialist Zeitgeist: History spirits and the problem of generational (dis)continuity in an Ethiopian Orthodox exorcism Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow UK) and Bethlehem Hailu Dejene (NorthWestern University USA) Notes Bibliography Index
List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin Italy) and Sandra Fancello (CNRS-IMAF France) Part I - Deliverance and Spiritual Insecurity 1. Battling Satan's Minions: Christian-Muslim Entanglements in an Age of Spiritual Insecurity Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University USA) 2. Deliverance Centers Spiritual Insecurity and a Pragmatic Approach to Healing in Ugandan Pentecostalism Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin Italy) 3. Everyday Deliverances in Tanzania Martin Lindhardt (Syddansk Universitet Denmark) Part II - Charismatic Healing in the Markets of Well-Being 4. Kapopo the "Incurable Illness" Structural Violence Social Suffering and Spiritual Healers in the Democratic Republic of Congo Edoardo Quaretta (University of Turin Italy) 5. Resisting Deliverance: Majini Spirits Matriliny and Religious Change in Northern Mozambiqu Daria Trentini (Drake University USA) 6. Churches against Hospitals? Deliverance and healers in the field of public health Sandra Fancello (CNRS-IMAF France) Part III - Healing and Social Change 7. Healers vs. Prayer Teams: Contesting Deliverance and Healing among Ugandan Charismatic Catholics Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (Australian Catholic University Australia) 8. Staking out God's Kingdom: Moral Geographies Land and Healing in Southern African Charismatic Christian Farming Hans Olsson and Karen Lauterbach (University of Copenhagen Denmark) 9. Possessed by the post-Socialist Zeitgeist: History spirits and the problem of generational (dis)continuity in an Ethiopian Orthodox exorcism Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow UK) and Bethlehem Hailu Dejene (NorthWestern University USA) Notes Bibliography Index
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