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Possession

Robbins, “Keeping God’s Distance”

Robbins, Joel. 2017. Keeping God’s Distance: Sacrifice, possession, and the problem of religious mediation. American Ethnologist 44(3): 464-475. Abstract: Much contemporary work in …

August 18, 2017 ndca-admin

McCloud, “American Possessions”

McCloud, Sean. 2015. American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States. New York: Oxford University Press. Publisher’s Description: Stories …

March 30, 2015 ndca-admin

Selka, “Demons and Money”

Selka, Stephen.  2014.  Demons and Money: Possessions in Brazilian Pentecostalism.  In Spirited Things: The Work of “Possession” in Afro-Atlantic Religions, …

March 25, 2014 ndca-admin

Heuser, “Put on God’s Armour Now!”

Heuser, Andreas (2011) “‘Put on God’s Armour Now!’: the Embattled Body in African Pentecostal-type Christianity”  in Sebastian Jobs and Gesa …

December 6, 2011 ndca-admin

Di Bella, “Glossolalia and Possession among Pentecostal groups of the Mezzogiorno”

Di Bella, Maria Pia “Glossolalia and Possession among Pentecostal groups of the Mezzogiorno” (translated by Olga Koepping) in Elizabeth Koepping …

October 16, 2011 ndca-admin

Luedke “Intimacy and Alterity”

Luedke, Tracy (2011) Intimacy and Alterity: Prophetic Selves and Spirit Others in Central Mozambique Journal of Religion in Africa 41(2):154-179 Abstract: In the …

October 6, 2011 ndca-admin

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