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“A fantastic book. In the tradition of the best work on the Zambian Copperbelt, Naomi Haynes gives us an up-to-date account of the literature’s enduring themes, including how urbanization, economic development, and modernity are faring in the post colony.” —Matthew Engelke, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
“This detailed ethnography of life in Pentecostal communities on the Zambian Copperbelt offers a close view and a meaningful appreciation of both leaders and members, especially with respect to the concepts of charisma and prosperity. Moving by the Spirit is a very rich case study of what has become a growing movement in the wider world.” —Jane I. Guyer, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Bemba Orthography and Pseudonyms
Prologue: A Breakthrough for Mr. Zulu
Introduction: Pentecostalism as Promise, Pentecostalism as Problem
1. Boom and Bust, Revival and Renewal
2. Making Moving Happen
3. Becoming Pentecostal on the Copperbelt
4. Ritual and the (Un)making of the Pentecostal Relational World
5. Prosperity, Charisma, and the Problem of Gender
6. On the Potential and Problems of Pentecostal Exchange
7. Mending Mother’s Kitchen
8. The Circulation of Copperbelt Saints
Conclusion: Worlds That Flourish
Notes
References Cited
Index
About the author
Naomi Haynes is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. She is coeditor of the Current Anthropology special issue The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions and of the Social Analysis special issue Hierarchy, Values, and the Value of Hierarchy. She is also co-curator of the Anthropology of Christianity Bibliographic Blog at www.anthrocybib.net.
Summary
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, this book explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. It highlights this religion's role in making life possible in structurally adjusted Africa.
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"Haynes’s book is a page-turner and a table-turner – gracefully written and gently dissentient toward some existing ideas on contemporary African Pentecostalism. . . . Scholars of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity and anthropologists of Christianity are in debt to Naomi Haynes for supplying her readers with such an empirically rich and theoretically nuanced portrait of contemporary Zambian neo-Pentecostals."
