Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

Knut Rio is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, NorwayMichelle MacCarthy is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bergen, NorwayRuy Blanes is a Ramon y Cajal fellow at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Spain

• 1. Introduction: Pentecostal Witchcraft: Governance and Universalism in Comparison.-  2. German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness.-  3. Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Sociality in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.- 4. The Ndoki Index: Sorcery, Economy and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere.-  5. Branhamist Kindoki: Ethnographic Notes on Connectivity, Technology and Urban Witchcraft in Contemporary Kinshasa.-  6. Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands.- 7. The Power of a Severed Arm: Life, Witchcraft, and Christianity in Kilimanjaro.- 8. Demons, Devils and Witches in Pentecostal Port Vila: On Changing Cosmologies of Evil in Melanesia.- 9. Turning the Tide: Visionary Children and Spiritual War on a Vanuatu Island.- 10. Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea.- 11. Witchcraft Simplex: Experiences of Globalized Pentecostalism in Central and Northwestern Tanzania.