The Devil is Disorder
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781789204872 (ISBN)
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.
Rebecca Lynch is a Research Fellow at King's College London and has worked as a medical anthropologist on a number of UK public health and health services research projects. She has edited three books that seek to expand approaches to the body and health through examinations of the cosmological, and relationships between human health and technologies.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: VILLAGE, SPIRITS, AND MORAL ORDER
Chapter 1. Trinidad village
Chapter 2. The material and other worlds
Chapter 3. Cosmological crafting and story-telling
PART II: DISORDER AND THE DEVIL
Chapter 4. The body and health
Chapter 5. The Devil in the body
Chapter 6. Healing the body
Chapter 7. The body in the village and in the State
Chapter 8. The Devil is disorder
Conclusion: Job, justice and moral order
Appendix: Churches in the Village
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.12.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 20 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781789204872 / 9781789204872 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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