ISBN:
9781789204889
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
282 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
faith and religion;evangelical christian;christianity;ethnography;cultural anthropology;historical context;cosmological;global health;trinidad;satan and illness;physical illness;mental health;physical health;nuanced approach;local subjects;worldwide networks;spiritualism;spirit;small village;christianity and health;faith healing;intense emotion;experiments;villages;adventures;human struggles;life struggle;trinidadian village;moral orders;global context
Abstract:
What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography and locating the village in historical and global context, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings as shaping and being shaped by their context and, in the process, shaping individuals themselves. As people move from local to global subjects, health here stretches beyond being a matter of individual bodies and is connected to worldwide flows and networks, spirit entities, and expansive moral orders.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: VILLAGE, SPIRITS, AND MORAL ORDER -- Chapter 1. Trinidad village -- Chapter 2. The material and other worlds -- Chapter 3. Cosmological crafting and story-telling -- PART II: DISORDER AND THE DEVIL -- Chapter 4. The body and health -- Chapter 5. The Devil in the body -- Chapter 6. Healing the body -- Chapter 7. The body in the village and in the State -- Chapter 8. The Devil is disorder -- Conclusion: Job, justice and moral order -- Appendix: Churches in the Village -- References -- Index --
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http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LynchDevil
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