RT Article
T1 Mapping the spatial limbos of spiritual warfare: haunted houses, defiled land and the horrors of history
JF Material religion
VO 9
IS 2
SP 166
OP 185
A1 McCloud, Sean
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1667013548
AB Through an examination of spiritual warfare handbooks, this article hopes to make material both Third Wave Evangelical imaginings of physical space and their rituals to purify it, activities that might be described as attempts to fix the interstitial into position, to name it and claim for it a classification and moral assessment. Spiritual warfare manuals teach Evangelical readers how to exorcise ("deliver") people, objects and places from the unwelcome demons who have taken residence in them. Specifically, I focus on two spaces and places that garner a great deal of attention in this literature: "haunted houses" and "defiled land." I argue that these locations, in the Third Wave Evangelical imaginary, may be described as "spatial limbos"—interstitial and contested no-man's lands in which the sins of history materialize in the form of demons. Such sites are spiritual battlefields that, far from being empty, are over-determined with ambivalent meaning and significance.
K1 Demons
K1 Evangelicalism
K1 Third Wave
K1 defiled land
K1 Deliverance
K1 haunted houses
K1 spatial limbos
K1 Spiritual warfare
DO 10.2752/175183413X13703410896690