Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy : Apostolic Reformation in Botswana
Richard. Werbner
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berkeley, Calif. ; London : : University of California Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (284 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: TO AND FROM CRISIS AND BEYOND; 1. Holy Hustling; 2. Between the Prophetic and the Pastoral; 3. The Lives of Prophets and Bishops; 4. Escalating Crisis: Faith and Trust "under Destruction"; 5. Schism, Innovation, and Continuity; PART II: WONDROUS NARRATION AND SOMATIC REVELATION IN PROPHECY; 6. Personal Nearness and Sincerity in Prayer; 7. Diagnosis, Reconnaissance, and Fabrication; 8. Prescribing Christian Cosmetics: Moving Bodies and Intercorporeality; 9. Old and New in Christian Reformation. - Conclusion: From Film to Book-Dianoia and Noesis Notes; References; Index;. - This book examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between the elders and the young, apostolic faith healers. Richard Werbner focuses on Eloyi, an Apostolic faith-healing church in Botswana's capital. Werbner shows how charismatic ""prophets""-holy hustlers-diagnose, hustle, and shock patients during violent and destructive exorcisms. He also shows how these healers enter into prayer and meditation and take on their patients' pain and how their ecstatic devotions create an aesthetic in which beaut
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| Dewey | 262.72 . - 306.096883
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| ISBN | 9780520268531. - 9780520268548
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