Scherz, China. 2013. Let us make God our banker: Ethics, temporality, and agency in a Ugandan charity home. American Ethnologist …
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Blanes, “Time For Self Sacrifice”
Blanes, Ruy Llera. 2013. Time For Self Sacrifice. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. (early digital release: DOI:10.1080/00141844.2013.806946). Abstract: In this article I propose …
Mohr, “Enchanted Calvinism”
Mohr, Adam. 2013. Enchanted Calvinism: Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Rochester: University …
van Dijk, “Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana”
van Dijk, Rijk. 2013. Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana. Culture, Health & Sexuality (Published …
Naidu and Nzuza, “When God Beckons: Stories of the ‘Call’ in a Pentecostal Church”
Nzuza, Maheshvari and Nokwanda Nzuza. 2013. “When God Beckons: Stories of the ‘Call’ in a Pentecostal Church.” Journal of Social Science 36(2): 153-163. Abstract: The biblical narratives …
Boyd, “The Problem with Freedom”
Boyd, Lydia. 2013. The Problem with Freedom: Homosexuality and Human Rights in Uganda. Anthropological Quarterly 86(3):697-724. Abstract: The recent backlash …
James, “Themes in Spirit Possession in Ugandan Christianity”
James, R. 2013. Themes in Spirit Possession in Ugandan Christianity. International Journal of Modern Anthropology. Abstract: Spirit possession and the …
Adogame, “African Pentecostalism”
Adogame, Afe. 2013. Reconfiguring the Global Religious Economy: The Role of African Pentecostalism. In Spirit and Power: The Growth and …
van Klinken, “Imitation as Transformation of the Male Self How an Apocryphal Saint Reshapes Zambian Catholic Men”
van Klinken, Adriaan. 2013. Imitation as Transformation of the Male Self How an Apocryphal Saint Reshapes Zambian Catholic Men. Cahiers d’études africaines …
Gifford, Paul. 2004. Ghana’s New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy
Reviewed by Joel Robbins (Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego). Paul Gifford is one of the most knowledgeable and prolific scholars of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa. He has written both surveys on general topics, such as the public role of Christian churches in Africa, and monographs focused on specific countries