Going to Pentecost

An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-139-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Reihe: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world – in particular the emergence of “non-territorial” religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) – and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eriksen, Annelin

Blanes, Ruy Llera

MacCarthy, Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

PART I: INTRODUCTIONS

Introduction: Going to ‘Pentecost’: Outline of an Experiment

Interlude: Locations in 'Pentecost'

Reading Guide

PART II: PRESENTATIONS FROM 'PENTECOST'

Chapter 1. Borders in ‘Pentecost’: Creating Protected Spaces

Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Life and Death: A New Moral Economy in ‘Pentecost’

Chapter 3. Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road

PART III: THEORIES FROM 'PENTECOST'

Chapter 4. Borders and Abjections: Approaching Individualism in ‘Pentecost’

Chapter 5. Engaging with Theories of Neoliberalism and Prosperity

Chapter 6. Ruptures and Encompassments: Towards an Absolute Truth

PART IV: COMMENTS

Chapter 7. Comparison Re-placed

Matei Candea

Chapter 8. Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism

Joel Robbins

Chapter 9. Life at The End of Time: A Note on Comparison, 'Pentecost' and the Trobriands

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Chapter 10. Wealth versus Money in Pentecost: Why Is Money Good?

Knut Rio

Chapter 11. ‘Pentecost’ in The World

Birgit Meyer

Index

Über Autor(innen)

MacCarthy, Michelle
Michelle MacCarthy is an Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada). She is the author of Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands (University of Hawaii Press, 2016).

Eriksen, Annelin
Annelin Eriksen is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. She is the author of Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu (Routledge, 2008), and her research mainly focuses on gender, social and cultural change, future, cosmology, and Christianity.

Blanes, Ruy Llera
Ruy Llera Blanes is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. He is the author of A Prophetic Trajectory (2014, Berghahn), and is editor of the journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research.

Annelin Eriksen is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. She is the author of Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu (Routledge, 2008), and her research mainly focuses on gender, social and cultural change, future, cosmology, and Christianity.