Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa

Sandra Fancello is Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research, France.Alessandro Gusman is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Turin, Italy.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgements Introduction, Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin, Italy) and Sandra Fancello (CNRS-IMAF, France)Part I – Deliverance and Spiritual Insecurity1. Battling Satan’s Minions: Christian-Muslim Entanglements in an Age of Spiritual Insecurity, Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University, USA)2. Deliverance Centers, Spiritual Insecurity and a Pragmatic Approach to Healing in Ugandan Pentecostalism, Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin, Italy)3. Everyday Deliverances in Tanzania, Martin Lindhardt (Syddansk Universitet, Denmark)Part II – Charismatic Healing in the Markets of Well-Being4. Kapopo, the “Incurable Illness” Structural Violence, Social Suffering and Spiritual Healers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Edoardo Quaretta (University of Turin, Italy)5. Resisting Deliverance: Majini Spirits, Matriliny, and Religious Change in Northern Mozambiqu, Daria Trentini (Drake University, USA)6. Churches against Hospitals? Deliverance and healers in the field of public health, Sandra Fancello (CNRS-IMAF, France)Part III – Healing and Social Change7. Healers vs. Prayer Teams: Contesting Deliverance and Healing among Ugandan Charismatic Catholics, Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (Australian Catholic University, Australia)8. Staking out God’s Kingdom: Moral Geographies, Land and Healing in Southern African Charismatic Christian Farming, Hans Olsson and Karen Lauterbach (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)9. Possessed by the post-Socialist Zeitgeist: History, spirits, and the problem of generational (dis)continuity in an Ethiopian Orthodox exorcism, Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow, UK) and Bethlehem Hailu Dejene (NorthWestern University, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex

The case thinking approach in this volume takes us into the intimate circle of families and couples, revealing the diagnoses of the unnamed and chronic evil that disturbs their spirits and gnaws at their bodies. With a focus on pandemic crises and deadlocks in hospital medicine, this book is strikingly topical.