The Devil is Disorder (eBook)

Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

Rebecca Lynch (Autor)

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2020
282 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-488-9 (ISBN)

Infos

What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography and locating the village in historical and global context, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings as shaping and being shaped by their context and, in the process, shaping individuals themselves. As people move from local to global subjects, health here stretches beyond being a matter of individual bodies and is connected to worldwide flows and networks, spirit entities, and expansive moral orders.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Adventures • Anthropology of Religion • Christianity • christianity and health • Cosmological • Cultural Anthropology • Devil and Health • ethnography • evangelical christian • Evangelical Christianity • experiments • faith and religion • faith healing • global context • Global Health • Globalization • historical context • human struggles • intense emotion • life struggle • local subjects • Local Village Medicine • Medical Anthropology • Mental Health • Moral orders • nuanced approach • physical health • physical illness • Postcolonialistation • satan and illness • small village • SPIRIT • Spiritualism • Trinidad • trinidadian village • villages • worldwide networks
• ISBN-10: 1-78920-488-7 / 1789204887
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-488-9 / 9781789204889