Charismatic Healers In Contemporary Africa

Author : Sandra Fancello,Alessandro Gusman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350295469

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Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa by Sandra Fancello,Alessandro Gusman Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Schuster Campbell
Publisher : Lotus Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780914955917

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Called to Heal by Susan Schuster Campbell Pdf

This book tells the story of some remarkable people from the African Healing tradition. It exposes many of us, for the first time, to ways of relating to our world that are holistic and shamanistic in nature, adding real quality and value to our lives. It challenges us to integrate the contribution of African healing methods, and these extraordinary healers, into a new healthier vision of our future.

Author : Deborah van den Bosch-Heij
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781920382186

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Spirit and Healing in Africa by Deborah van den Bosch-Heij Pdf

There is a great need for healing in Africa. This need is in itself no different elsewhere in the world, but it is greatly determined by the involvement of religious communities and traditions. Faith communities and religious institutions play a major role in assisting African believers to find health, healing and completeness in everyday life.

Author : Candy Gunther Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780195393408

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Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing by Candy Gunther Brown Pdf

Divine healing is the essential marker of the global phenomenon of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. The essays in this collection seek to discover what is the same and what is different about such beliefs and practices in diverse contexts, and much more.

Author : Jo Thobeka Wreford,Joanne Wreford
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Healing
ISBN : 1845454766

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Working with Spirit by Jo Thobeka Wreford,Joanne Wreford Pdf

In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based on the author's personal experience as a practitioner of traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the unprecedented challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she proposes the development of a "language of spirit" by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions. The author discusses white izangoma in the context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists that there exists a powerful role for izangoma in the realm of societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual conversation between traditional African healing, academe, and biomedicine in South Africa.

Author : Mika Vähäkangas,Andrew A. Kyomo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : UOM:39015059981830

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Charismatic Renewal in Africa by Mika Vähäkangas,Andrew A. Kyomo Pdf

Author : Knut Rio,Michelle MacCarthy,Ruy Blanes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319560687

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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft by Knut Rio,Michelle MacCarthy,Ruy Blanes Pdf

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 : Zorodzai Dube
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928523710

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Healer by Zorodzai Dube Pdf

This book explores the established field of healing narratives in the New Testament by focusing on the remembered tradition regarding Jesus’ healings and comparing them with those of other healers, such as Asclepius. A sub-theme to the book is to investigate the reception of Jesus as healer in various African communities. The book exposes the various healing methods employed by Jesus such as exorcism, touch and the use of spittle. Like any other healing performances that reflect the healthcare system of a given culture, Jesus’ healings were holistic: healing the bodily pain, restoring households and combatting stigmatisation and marginalisation. The book demonstrates Jesus’ healing activities as “shalom” performances that seek to re-establish peace in all its social dimensions. With regard to the reception of Jesus as healer in the African context, the book elaborates the sacrificial lamb motif and the need for restoring a relationship with God. All the contributions in the book present a unique and original perspective in understanding Jesus as healer from an African healthcare system.

Author : Tracy J. Luedke,Harry G. West
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0253218055

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Borders and Healers by Tracy J. Luedke,Harry G. West Pdf

This important book contributes to understandings of the ways in which healing practices in southeast Africa mediate divides between the wealthy and the impoverished, the traditional and the modern, the local and the global.

Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781405196901

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions by Elias Kifon Bongmba Pdf

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa. Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the continent Contributors are from a variety of fields, ensuring the volume offers multidisciplinary perspectives Explores methodological approaches to religion from anthropological, philosophical, and historical perspectives Provides insights into the historical developments in African religions, as well as contemporary issues such as the development of African-initiated churches, neo traditional religions, and Pentecostalism Discusses important topics at the intersection of culture and religion in Africa, including the arts, health, politics, globalization, gender relations, and the economy

Author : Gerrie ter Haar
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002119173

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Spirit of Africa by Gerrie ter Haar Pdf

Author : Katerina Mildnerová
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Diseases
ISBN : 9783643902733

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From Where Does the Bad Wind Blow? by Katerina Mildnerová Pdf

This study deals with the phenomenon of spiritual healing and witchcraft within the field of indigenous medicine and African Independent Churches in the contemporary urban setting of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Grounded in theoretical concepts of medical and symbolical anthropology, the book analyzes the syncretic character of medical culture and the so-called "therapy shopping" phenomenon. Special attention is paid to the local conceptualization of health, illness and body, cultural aetiology, the social and cultural representation of spirit possession and witchcraft, as well as a description of different types of healers along with their diagnostic and therapeutic praxis. A separate section is dedicated to the symbolical interpretation of witchcraft on the level of theory, system, and practice, based on different case studies. (Series: Anthropology / Ethnologie - Vol. 49) [Subject: Anthropology, African Studies, Religious Studies, Spiritualism, Cultural Studies]

Author : Laura S. Grillo,Adriaan van Klinken,Hassan J. Ndzovu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351260701

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Religions in Contemporary Africa by Laura S. Grillo,Adriaan van Klinken,Hassan J. Ndzovu Pdf

Religions in Contemporary Africa is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the three main religious traditions on the African continent, African indigenous religions, Christianity and Islam. The book provides a historical overview of these important traditions and focuses on the roles they play in African societies today. It includes social, cultural and political case studies from across the continent on the following topical issues: Witchcraft and modernity Power and politics Conflict and peace Media and popular culture Development Human rights Illness and health Gender and sexuality With suggestions for further reading, discussion questions, illustrations and a list of glossary terms this is the ideal textbook for students in religion, African studies and adjacent fields approaching this subject area for the first time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004281875

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Pentecostalism in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Bringing together prominent Africanist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of the social, cultural and political impact of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in postcolonial sub Saharan Africa.

Author : Katharina Wilkens
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9783643111791

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Holy Water and Evil Spirits by Katharina Wilkens Pdf

In Tanzania, the Marian Faith Healing Ministry offers Catholic healing rituals under the patronage of the Virgin Mary. Exorcism and a special water service are central to the healing process. People bring physical, spiritual, and social afflictions before the group's leader, Felicien Nkwera. Combining the perspectives of the study of religions and medical anthropology, this book analyzes Nkwera's pastoral texts and the personal healing narratives of the members. Thus, a complex image of the healing process is created and framed within its Tanzanian interreligious context and its global conservative Catholic context. (Series: Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung - Vol. 47)