Going to Pentecost : an experimental approach to studies in Pentecostalism / Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes and Michelle MacCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eriksen, Annelin, author.

Blanes, Ruy Llera, 1976- Author.

MacCarthy, Michelle, 1976- Author.

Contributor:

University of Bergen, Funder.

Series:

Ethnography, theory, experiment.

Ethnography, Theory, Experiment Series ; v.7.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 227 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Going to Pentecost

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed May 30, 2023).

ISBN:

9781789201413

1789201411

9781789201406

1789201403

OCLC:

1250424642