Seductive spirits: deliverance, demons, and sexual worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
"Pentecostalism, Africa's fasting growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies. Among Ghanaian Pentecostals, deliverance is primary among the embodied, experiential gifts - a loud, messy, and noisy experience that ends only...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Livro |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
[2024]
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| Em: | Ano: 2024 |
| Coletânea / Revista: | Spiritual phenomena
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B Experience (Religion) B Demonology Pentecostal churches B Sex Religious aspects Pentecostal churches B Demoniac possession (Ghana) B Spirit Possession (Ghana) B Pentecostalism (Ghana) |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Homewood, Nathanael J: Seductive spirits. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024. - 9781503638075 |
| Resumo: | "Pentecostalism, Africa's fasting growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies. Among Ghanaian Pentecostals, deliverance is primary among the embodied, experiential gifts - a loud, messy, and noisy experience that ends only when the possessed body falls silent and docile to the ground, the evil spirits rendered powerless in the face of the holy spirit-wielding-prophets. And nowhere is Ghanaian Pentecostal obsession with demons more pronounced than with sexual demons. In this book, Nathanael Homewood examines the frequent and varied experiences of spirit possession and sex with demons that constitute a vital part of Pentecostal deliverance ministries, offering insight into these practices assembled from long-term ethnographic engagement with four churches in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Relying on the uniqueness of the Pentecostal sensorium, this book unravels how spirits and sexuality intimately combine to expand the definition of the body beyond its fleshy boundaries. Demons are a knowledge regime, one that shapes how Pentecostals think about, engage with, and construct the cosmos. Deliverance Pentecostals reiterate and tarry with the demonic, especially sexually, as a realm of invention whereby alternative ways of being, sensing, and having sex are dreamed, practiced, and performed. Ultimately, Homewood argues for a distinction between colonial demonization and decolonial demons, which chart another path to understanding being, the body, and sexualities."-- |
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| ISBN: | 150363793X |