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The devil is disorder : bodies, spirits and misfortune in a Trinidadian village / Rebecca Lynch.
Van Pelt Library BR1642.T7 L86 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynch, Rebecca (Research fellow), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evangelicalism--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Evangelicalism.
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Medicine.
- Trinidad--Religious life and customs.
- Trinidad.
- Trinidad--Social life and customs.
- Trinidad--Church history.
- Devil--Christianity.
- Devil.
- Health--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Health.
- Cosmology.
- Trinidad and Tobago.
- Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 251 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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. -- Provided by publisher, page 4 of cover.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Village, spirits and moral order
- Trinidad Village
- The material and other worlds
- Cosmological crafting and story-telling
- Part 2. Disorder and the devil
- The body and health
- The devil in the body
- Healing the body
- The body in the village and in the state
- The devil is disorder
- Conclusion. Job, justice and moral order.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lynch, Rebecca, The devil is disorder
- ISBN:
- 1789204879
- 9781789204872
- OCLC:
- 1097580139
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