Holy Hustlers Schism And Prophecy

Author : Richard Werbner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520949461

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Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy by Richard Werbner Pdf

This book examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana’s time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between the elders and the young, apostolic faith healers. Richard Werbner focuses on Eloyi, an Apostolic faith-healing church in Botswana’s capital. Werbner shows how charismatic "prophets"—holy hustlers—diagnose, hustle, and shock patients during violent and destructive exorcisms. He also shows how these healers enter into prayer and meditation and take on their patients’ pain and how their ecstatic devotions create an aesthetic in which beauty beckons God. Werbner challenges theoretical assumptions about mimesis and empathy, the power of the word, and personhood. With its accompanying DVD, Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy integrates textual and filmed ethnography and provides a fresh perspective on ritual performance and the cinematic.

Author : Thomas G. Kirsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1376983475

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Buchbesprechung Von Richard Werbner: "Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy by Thomas G. Kirsch Pdf

Author : Ruy Llera Blanes
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781782382737

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A Prophetic Trajectory by Ruy Llera Blanes Pdf

Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simão Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The book explains the historical, ethnic, spiritual, and identity transformations observed within the movement, and debates the politics of remembrance and heritage left behind after Toko's passing in 1984. Ultimately, it questions the categories of prophetism and charisma, as well as the intersections between mobility, memory, and belonging in the Atlantic Lusophone sphere.

Author : Joel Robbins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520238008

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Becoming Sinners by Joel Robbins Pdf

A study of cultural change through the study of the Christianization of the Urapmin, a Melanesian society in Papua New Guinea.

Author : Joel Cabrita
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054431

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Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church by Joel Cabrita Pdf

This book tells the story of one of the largest and most influential African churches in South Africa.

Author : Marian Burchardt,Monika Wohlrab-Sahr,Matthias Middell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781614514053

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Multiple Secularities Beyond the West by Marian Burchardt,Monika Wohlrab-Sahr,Matthias Middell Pdf

Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.

Author : Gabriel Faimau,William O. Lesitaokana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527517882

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New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion by Gabriel Faimau,William O. Lesitaokana Pdf

New media, including digital and social media, play a central role in producing and reproducing socio-cultural and religious practices. Its presence has not only resulted in changes to the ways in which religious beliefs are practiced, but has also altered the way religious meanings are expressed. How has new media technology informed and influenced religious engagement and participation? In what ways has new media technology enabled religious groups to practice and preach their religious beliefs to a broader audience? To what extent has the emergence of social media and social networking sites shaped religious discourses and religious practices? This volume offers a unique, Africa-centred perspective in response to these questions. While presenting new scholarly developments in the fields of media, religion and culture in Africa, this book also provides empirical and theoretical insights into the intersection between new media and religion.

Author : Fenella Cannell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822388159

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The Anthropology of Christianity by Fenella Cannell Pdf

This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical “repressed” of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself as a rational, empirically based enterprise quite different from theology. The theology it repudiated was, for the most part, Christian. Cannell asserts that anthropological theory carries within it ideas profoundly shaped by this rejection. Because of this, anthropology has been less successful in considering Christianity as an ethnographic object than it has in considering other religions. This collection is designed to advance a more subtle and less self-limiting anthropological study of Christianity. The contributors examine the contours of Christianity among diverse groups: Catholics in India, the Philippines, and Bolivia, and Seventh-Day Adventists in Madagascar; the Swedish branch of Word of Life, a charismatic church based in the United States; and Protestants in Amazonia, Melanesia, and Indonesia. Highlighting the wide variation in what it means to be Christian, the contributors reveal vastly different understandings and valuations of conversion, orthodoxy, Scripture, the inspired word, ritual, gifts, and the concept of heaven. In the process they bring to light how local Christian practices and beliefs are affected by encounters with colonialism and modernity, by the opposition between Catholicism and Protestantism, and by the proximity of other religions and belief systems. Together the contributors show that it not sufficient for anthropologists to assume that they know in advance what the Christian experience is; each local variation must be encountered on its own terms. Contributors. Cecilia Busby, Fenella Cannell, Simon Coleman, Peter Gow, Olivia Harris, Webb Keane, Eva Keller, David Mosse, Danilyn Rutherford, Christina Toren, Harvey Whitehouse

Author : Carolyn Moxley Rouse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520237943

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Engaged Surrender by Carolyn Moxley Rouse Pdf

Described is why the Islam gives African American women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. The author did her study among the women of the Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles.

Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137444820

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Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain by Ronald Hutton Pdf

This volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, amulets, and magical equipment. The contributors are the current experts in each area of the subject, and show between them how ample the evidence is and how important it is for an understanding of history.

Author : Kristin Norget
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520963368

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The Anthropology of Catholicism by Kristin Norget Pdf

Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines.

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195131611

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A Catholic Modernity? by Charles Taylor Pdf

Dimensions of his intellectual commitment - dimensions left implicit in his philosophical writing.

Author : Henry Edward Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Papacy
ISBN : BL:A0017179370

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The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy: Four Lectures by Henry Edward Manning Pdf

Author : Hansjörg Dilger,Astrid Bochow,Marian Burchardt,Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781478007166

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Affective Trajectories by Hansjörg Dilger,Astrid Bochow,Marian Burchardt,Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon Pdf

The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on ethnographic research throughout the continent and in African diasporic communities abroad, they trace the myriad ways religious ideas, practices, and materialities interact with affect to configure life in urban spaces. Whether examining the affective force of the built urban environment or how religious practices contribute to new forms of attachment, identification, and place-making, they illustrate the force of affect as it is shaped by temporality and spatiality in the religious lives of individuals and communities. Among other topics, they explore Masowe Apostolic Christianity in relation to experiences of displacement in Harare, Zimbabwe; Muslim identity, belonging, and the global ummah in Ghana; crime, emotions, and conversion to neo-Pentecostalism in Cape Town; and spiritual cleansing in a Congolese branch of a Japanese religious movement. In so doing, the contributors demonstrate how the social and material living conditions of African cities generate diverse affective forms of religious experiences in ways that foster both localized and transnational paths of emotional knowledge. Contributors. Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, Rafael Cazarin, Hansjörg Dilger, Alessandro Gusman, Murtala Ibrahim, Peter Lambertz, Isabelle L. Lange, Isabel Mukonyora, Benedikt Pontzen, Hanspeter Reihling, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

Author : Mattia Fumanti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : UIUC:30112118141818

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The Politics of Distinction by Mattia Fumanti Pdf

"Focusing on how generational relations between elites have both shaped, and are shaped by, the transitions from apartheid and civil war to independence and post-independence, this book illuminates public debates on the power of education, the aspirations of youth, the role of the state and citizen, delivery of good governance and the place of ethnic and settler minorities in post-apartheid southern Africa"--Back cover.