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Why do people pray for health in West Africa?
Why do people pray for health in West Africa?
Ryan Schram
Mills 169 (A26)
ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au
23 February 2015
Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2667/7
Readings
Omenyo, Cephas. 2011. “New Wine in an Old Wine Bottle?: Charismatic Healing in the Mainline Churches in Ghana.” In Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, edited by Candy Gunther Brown, 231–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Meyer, Birgit. 1998. “‘Make a Complete Break with the Past.’ Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse.” Journal of Religion in Africa 28 (3): 316–49. doi:10.2307/1581573.
Jorgensen, Dan. 2005. “Third Wave Evangelism and the Politics of the Global in Papua New Guinea: Spiritual Warfare and the Recreation of Place in Telefolmin.” Oceania 75 (4): 444–61.
Werbner, Richard. 2011. Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy: Apostolic Reformation in Botswana. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
Other media
Banerjee, Neela. 2007. “A Midnight Service Helps African Immigrants Combat Demons.” The New York Times, December 18, sec. National. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/us/18witchcraft.html.
Key ideas for this week
- Witches and demons: Meyer on diabolization
- Pentecostalism in Africa
A guide to the unit
ANTH 2667: The anthropology of religion—a guide to the unit