عنوان

Sorcellerie en milieu urbain amplifieé par les pentecôtismes camerounais

شماره

LA107745

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Sorcellerie en milieu urbain amplifieé par les pentecôtismes camerounais

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Sariette Batibonak

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Once considered as a "rural" phenomenon, issues pertaining to the occult have, at the height of globalization, become an "urban" problem. Witchcraft is particularly invoked to designate success; to provide information on individual and collective misfortunes, justifying battles against fetishes, misfortune, bad genies and all kinds of evil spirits leading to poverty, unemployment, bad luck or (a state of) being possessed. Increasingly since the nineties, the city has become the stage for Pentecostal effervescence. Preacher-healers have settled predominately in urban areas and play a crucial role in the reconstruction of sorcery's collective imagery, updating magical-religious systems of reference; rehabilitating exorcism and devotion in matters of deliverance. Religious and magical justifications have become regular features of urban acts and behaviours. In this context, witchcraft distinguishes itself as a response to urban life and could even be one of its founding elements. What are its urban markers? How does it express itself in contemporary urban life? Using an in situ approach, active observation and semi-structured interviews - this research examines, from an ethnographical perspective, urban witchcraft as amplified by a Pentecostal discourse vector of anti-witchcraft violence. Once considered as a "rural" phenomenon, issues pertaining to the occult have, at the height of globalization, become an "urban" problem. Witchcraft is particularly invoked to designate success; to provide information on individual and collective misfortunes, justifying battles against fetishes, misfortune, bad genies and all kinds of evil spirits leading to poverty, unemployment, bad luck or (a state of) being possessed. Increasingly since the nineties, the city has become the stage for Pentecostal effervescence. Preacher-healers have settled predominately in urban areas and play a crucial role in the reconstruction of sorcery's collective imagery, updating magical-religious systems of reference; rehabilitating exorcism and devotion in matters of deliverance. Religious and magical justifications have become regular features of urban acts and behaviours. In this context, witchcraft distinguishes itself as a response to urban life and could even be one of its founding elements. What are its urban markers? How does it express itself in contemporary urban life? Using an in situ approach, active observation and semi-structured interviews - this research examines, from an ethnographical perspective, urban witchcraft as amplified by a Pentecostal discourse vector of anti-witchcraft violence.

تاريخ نشر

2012

توصيف ظاهري

65-87

عنوان

Afrika Focus

شماره جلد

25/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2031-356X

اصطلاح موضوعی

churches

اصطلاح موضوعی

occultism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Pentecostalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

urban

اصطلاح موضوعی

witchcraft

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Sariette Batibonak

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/2031356X-02502006

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y