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Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy : Apostolic Reformation in Botswana / / Richard Werbner



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Autore: Werbner Richard Visualizza persona
Titolo: Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy : Apostolic Reformation in Botswana / / Richard Werbner Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina: 276.883 083
Soggetto topico: Pentecostal churches - Church history - Botswana - Gaborone
Soggetto geografico: Gaborone (Botswana)
Gaborone (Botswana) Church history
Soggetto non controllato: aids
anthropology
apostolic reformation
botswana
christian reformation
comparative religion
discussion books
empathy
ethnographers
ethnography
exorcisms
faith healers
faith healing
god
mimesis
moral issues
personhood
power of the word
prayer and meditation
prophecy
prophets
religious rituals
religious scholars
religious studies
ritual performance
schism
social science
theatrical
theoretical perspective
world religions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 beauty beckons God. Werbner challenges theoretical assumptions about mimesis and empathy, the power of the word, and personhood. With its accompanying DVD, Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy integrates textual and filmed ethnography and provides a fresh perspective on ritual performance and the cinematic.
Titolo autorizzato: Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27812-X
9786613278128
0-520-94946-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785577703321
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Serie: The Anthropology of Christianity