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Going to Pentecost : an experimental approach to studies in Pentecostalism /

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 sociali...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Eriksen, Annelin (Author), Blanes, Ruy Llera, 1976- (Author), MacCarthy, Michelle, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Series:Ethnography, theory, experiment ; v. 7.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : going to 'Pentecost' : outline of an experiment
  • Interlude : locations in 'Pentecost'
  • Borders in 'Pentecost': creating protected spaces
  • Reconfiguring life and death: a new moral economy in 'Pentecost'
  • Anti-relativist nostalgias and the absolutist road
  • Borders and abjections : approaching individualism in 'Pentecost'
  • Engaging with theories of neoliberalism and prosperity
  • Pentecostal anti-relativist nostalgias and the absolutist road
  • Comments
  • Comparison re-placed / Matei Candea
  • Pentecostalism and forms of individualism / Joel Robbins
  • Life at the end of time : a note on comparison, 'Pentecost' and the Trobriands / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen
  • Wealth versus money in Pentecost : why is money good? / Knut Rio
  • 'Pentecost' in the world / Birgit Meyer.