Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa - Deliverance in Muslim and Christian Worlds

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.>

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• Authors: Sandra Fancello, Alessandro Gusman
• Assisted by: Sandra Fancello (Editor), Alessandro Gusman (Editor), Gusman Alessandro (Editor), Bettina E. Schmidt (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781350295483
• ISBN: 978-1-350-29548-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies; Bloomsbury Advances in Religio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, Witchcraft, Africa, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Christianity, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies