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Book Synopsis Pentecostalism and Witchcraft by : Knut Rio
Download or read book Pentecostalism and Witchcraft written by Knut Rio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.
Book Synopsis Pentecostal Exorcism by : Opoku Onyinah
Download or read book Pentecostal Exorcism written by Opoku Onyinah and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Witchcraft" and exorcism have long been dominant features of life in African cultures. This unique book provides a thorough, field research-based description and analysis of a specifically Pentecostal Christian response to these phenomena within the Akan culture of Ghana. Anthropological studies generally claim that the ultimate goal of exorcism is modernisation. Using interdisciplinary studies with a theological focus, the author takes a different view, arguing that it is divinatory consultation or an inquiry into the sacred and the search for meaning that underlies the current "deliverance" ministry, where the focus is to identify and break down the so-called demonic forces by the power of God and to "deliver" people from their torment. The deliverance ministry is one attempt to contextualise the gospel for African people. However, preoccupation with demonisation and exorcistic practices is found to bring Christianity into tension with the Akan culture, family ties and other religions. In order to develop a properly safeguarded ministry of exorcism in an African context, the author examines contextualisation and suggests the integration into African Christianity of divinatory consultation, which has strong resonances with the biblical concept of prayer.
Book Synopsis Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Perspectives by : William Kipling
Download or read book Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Perspectives written by William Kipling and published by States Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostalism is a Protestant Christian movement that emphasises direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. Protestants believe that this enables a Christian to live a Spirit-filled and empowered life. This empowerment involves the use of spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues and divine healing. Witchcraft, according to practitioners, is the practice of magical skills and abilities such as using spells, incantations and magical rituals. It is a broad term that varies culturally and socially. In many cultures, witches are seen as the opposite of sacred. In some countries, many Pentecostal pastors have combined their evangelical brand of Christianity with regional beliefs in witchcraft. The book presents researches and studies performed by experts across the globe. Different approaches, evaluations, methodologies and advanced studies on Pentecostalism and witchcraft have been included herein. This book is a vital tool for all researching or studying this topic, as it gives incredible insights into emerging trends and concepts.
Book Synopsis Pentecostalism and Witchcraft by : Ruy Blanes
Download or read book Pentecostalism and Witchcraft written by Ruy Blanes and published by Saint Philip Street Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia-where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Book Synopsis Pagan Pentecostalism by : Curtis Edwards
Download or read book Pagan Pentecostalism written by Curtis Edwards and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Pentecostalism starts in Africa, home of Voodoo (vodou), the traditional religion of the motherland and the traditional religion of the diaspora. Here, the Damballa snake worshiping people were sadly shackled and sent abroad as human slaves. Coincidentally, the West and Central coast of Africa was also exporting slave religion, Orissa spirits and the spiritual culture of the homeland, including glossolalia. African slaves made their way to the Americas, particularly to Louisiana, which is a continuum to this narrative. Why? One hundred miles southwest of New Orleans, in Hoodoo country, William J. Seymour, child of slaves, was born. William J. Seymour had early life experiences with spirits and parallel manifestations like unto his forefathers who practiced pagan Voodoo religion. Unlike them though he was tainted with Protestantism and in his early thirties, around 1903, he became associated with the Church of God Evening Light Saints. This white, but racially inclusive group of holiness people, became his home. Here he was saved, filled with the Spirit and had a ministerial position. Seymour's story continues as he changes denominations, doctrines, spirits and locales. In 1906 he is found in Houston, where he is schooled by Charles Fox Parham concerning a spiritual work needed by humanity, above what Seymour received while part of the Evening Light Saints. According to Parham, there was a third work which was evidenced by xeno glossolalia. It was a miracle, like Pentecost, whereby ministers and missionaries could speak in the native languages (tongues) of foreigners. Seymour bought in. In 1906, after arriving in Los Angeles, Seymour "got the Holy Ghost and tongues" and became the Father of Pentecostalism. Under his leadership multitudes of people received this glossolalia at the Azusa Revival and a world-wide missionary effort began. But the Devil is in the details, for understandable language did not take root as promised by Parham and Seymour. The whole concept was ill-fated and nothing more than the unintelligible gibberish, like African witch doctors practice, was the result. Not only were the missionaries disillusioned with their Shaman-like tongues, but the entire outgrowth of Azusa was thrown into a series of exact and parallel manifestations, those seen in Voodoo and in African traditional religion. Early on, numbers of denominations and ministers took the snake oil of Damballa and experienced his pagan-based reactions, from illicit sex to glossolalia. But Pentecostal Paganism is an energizer bunny, for the initial 1906 pagan manifestations pale in comparison to what the so-called "Holy Ghost" is doing in post-Azusa. It seems that the Damballa Spirit of Paganism has camouflaged himself as the real Holy Spirit - and created Pentecostal Paganism. His cunning methodology has allowed Pentecostals to "pray in tongues" while at the same time hiss like snakes, practice gay sex, steal widows money through false pretense, talk to dead people, laugh uncontrollably and indulge in witchcraft. These, among many other Pentecostal Pagan manifestations have been used to paint the picture. Now that the final colors have been placed on this rendering, take time to study its hues and composition - then contemplate the interpretation of its pagan shades, 50 shades of Pagan Pentecostalism.
Book Synopsis The Witch's Guide to Wellness by : Krystle L. Jordan
Download or read book The Witch's Guide to Wellness written by Krystle L. Jordan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore natural healing, tune into your body’s needs, and use magic to create a joyful, healthy lifestyle with this essential guide to wellness for your witchcraft practice. Magic meets healthy living in this guidebook to help you become a healthier version of yourself. From crystal healing to moon cycles to other natural remedies, you’ll learn everything you need to know to strengthen, treat, and support your body and spirit—all while using your witchcraft skills. In The Witch’s Guide to Wellness, you will bring your spiritual practice into the practical world with spells, potions, and powerful activities. You will be able to treat common ailments, understand your body’s cycle, and develop a positive relationship with your mind and body. You’ll find remedies like: -A hydration ritual to help you detoxify your body -A magical herb jar that will alleviate worry -A grounding ritual for spiritual balance -And much more! The Witch’s Guide to Wellness shows you just how easy it is to connect with yourself, listen in to what your body needs, and add a little magic to make sure you’re living your healthiest life.
Book Synopsis Practicing the Faith by : Martin Lindhardt
Download or read book Practicing the Faith written by Martin Lindhardt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decades, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity has arguably become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Distinguishing features of this variant of Christianity include formal ritual activities as well as informal, experiential, and ecstatic forms of worship. This book examines Pentecostal-charismatic ritual practice in different parts of the world, highlighting, among other things, the crucial role of ritual in creating religious communities and identities.
Book Synopsis The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa by : Ilana van Wyk
Download or read book The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa written by Ilana van Wyk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid of 'emotions', that socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity and fellowship are 'useless' in materialising God's blessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early 1990s.
Book Synopsis Witches and Demons by : Jean La Fontaine
Download or read book Witches and Demons written by Jean La Fontaine and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship, misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of life can lead to.
Book Synopsis Pentecostalism and Witchcraft by : Knut Rio
Download or read book Pentecostalism and Witchcraft written by Knut Rio and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposes case studies from Melanesia and Africa in order to better compare, contrast, and illuminate the effects of and engagements with Pentecostalism. Focuses on chief themes of Pentecostalism and witchcraft while also bringing in discussions of globalization, visibility, movements of capital, and embodiment. Presents rich and detailed case studies while also offering up wide-ranging theoretical analyses and critiques of established thinking/concepts.
Book Synopsis Discerning Prophetic Witchcraft by : Jennifer LeClaire
Download or read book Discerning Prophetic Witchcraft written by Jennifer LeClaire and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Holy Spirit Handbook to Surviving Last Days Deception. On that day many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name? - Matthew 7:22 Are they prophesying by the Holy Spirit... or ministering under a demonic influence? Jennifer LeClaire received a startling prophetic word that a showdown was coming to the body of Christwhere both true and false prophets will be exposed. In this book she presents a confrontational yet constructive word of warning to the contemporary Spirit-empowered movement. More than ever, there is a great need in the modern prophetic community to be discerning of what is true and what is false. This powerful book features intriguing chapters that provide Bible answers, supernatural clarity and timely spiritual solutions, including: Identify what real prophets look and sound like. Discover the signs of false prophets. Discern the difference between false prophets and false prophecy. Avoid Prophetic Con Artists who sell prophecies and engage in spiritual scams. Beware of Charismatic Witchcraft. Recognize the counterfeit Rise of Christian Witches and Psychics. Resist those offering deliverance and impartation who are empowered by divination. When you learn to recognize and resist satans counterfeits, you will build your life upon unshakeable Truth and thrive in victory during days of darkness and compromise.
Book Synopsis Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rhodesia by : J. R. Crawford
Download or read book Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rhodesia written by J. R. Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967, this book is a study of witchcraft and sorcery among the Shona, Ndebele and Kalanga peoples of Zimbabwe. It analyses in their social context verbatim evidence and confessions from a comprehensive series of judicial records. It provides the first systematic demonstration of the importance and the exstent to which such sources can be used to make a detailed analysis of the character and range of beliefs and motives. The main emphasis is on witchcraft and sorcery beliefs, the nature of accusations, confessions and divination, btoh traditional and as practised by members of the Pentecostal Church.
Book Synopsis The Horned God of the Witches by : Jason Mankey
Download or read book The Horned God of the Witches written by Jason Mankey and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the History, Magick & Myths of the Horned One Explore the deep spiritual roots of the Horned God and discover rituals and activities designed to help you get closer to him.Throughout history, horned deities have been honored as gods of nature, sex, fertility, passion, sacrifice, death, and rebirth. The Horned God of the Witches reveals the origins and features of their most common guises—Pan, Cernunnos, Herne, Elen of the Ways, the Green Man, and even the Devil. Whether you are interested in the Wiccan Horned God—a more contemporary composite of several deities—or in one of his many other forms, these rituals for meeting the powerful deity will help you achieve your magical goals. With hands-on techniques for divination, creating an altar, working magick, spiritual lovemaking, and receiving the gifts of the Witchfather, this book supports a transformative deepening of your relationship to the divine.
Book Synopsis The Future Church by : John L. Allen, Jr.
Download or read book The Future Church written by John L. Allen, Jr. and published by Image. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed—and what the changes will mean for all of us. What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman pope? Will dioceses throughout the United States and the rest of the world go bankrupt from years of scandal? In THE FUTURE CHURCH, John L. Allen puts forth the ten trends he believes will transform the Church into the twenty-second century. From the influence of Catholics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on doctrine and practices to the impact of multinational organizations on local and ethical standards, Allen delves into the impact of globalization on the Roman Catholic Church and argues that it must rethink fundamental issues, policies, and ways of doing business. Allen shows that over the next century, the Church will have to respond to changes within the institution itself and in the world as a whole whether it is contending with biotechnical advances—including cloning and genetic enhancement—the aging Catholic population, or expanding the roles of the laity. Like Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat, THE FUTURE CHURCH establishes a new framework for meeting the challenges of a changing world.
Book Synopsis From Witchcraft to Christ by : Doreen Irvine
Download or read book From Witchcraft to Christ written by Doreen Irvine and published by Kingsway Communications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From poverty, drugs to prostitution to a life of joy and freedom, this story charts one woman's entanglement with the occult and her eventual dramatic release. Doreen's experience may be extreme, yet it still offers hope, especially to those who believe they are too far gone to be forgiven.
Book Synopsis The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama by : Katrien Pype
Download or read book The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama written by Katrien Pype and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.
Book Synopsis Witchcraft, Demons and Deliverance by : Claudia Währisch-Oblau
Download or read book Witchcraft, Demons and Deliverance written by Claudia Währisch-Oblau and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beliefs in witchcraft and demons still shape many societies and seem to be increasing rather than disappearing with modernization and urbanization. Witch hunts in Africa and Asia show the scope of the problem. The deliverance practices of pentecostal and charismatic churches are widely controversial and their effects are rather ambiguous. The contributions in this volume, written by experts and practitioners from four continents, analyze these phenomena from the perspectives of intercultural theology, anthropology, and ethnology, and also describe the responses of Catholic and Protestant churches. (Series: Contributions to Mission Science / Intercultural Theology // Beitrage zur Missionswissenschaft / Interkulturellen Theologie - Vol. 32) [Subject: Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology, Religious Studies]
