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Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa

Deliverance in Muslim and Christian Worlds

«The case thinking approach in this volume takes us into the intimate circle of families and couples, revealing the diagnoses of the unnamed and chronic evil that disturbs their spirits and gnaws at their bodies. With a focus on pandemic crises and deadlocks in hospital medicine, this book is strikingly topical.»

André Mary, Anthropologist and Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research, France

Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this open access book 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.

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Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this open access book 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.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Turin Lungo Dora and Institut des Mondes Africains.

Detaljer

Forlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Innbinding
Paperback
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
234
ISBN
9781350295483
Utgivelsesår
2024
Format
23 x 16 cm

Om forfatteren

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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«The case thinking approach in this volume takes us into the intimate circle of families and couples, revealing the diagnoses of the unnamed and chronic evil that disturbs their spirits and gnaws at their bodies. With a focus on pandemic crises and deadlocks in hospital medicine, this book is strikingly topical.»

André Mary, Anthropologist and Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research, France

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