Going to Pentecost raises important questions that intersect with theoretical issues in religion, globalization, and research about everyday life, that extend beyond the anthropology of Christianity and therefore, important for the broader more multidisciplinary study of Pentecostalism. • Anthropos

This volume should be commended for its methodological device that allows for further investigation in the study of transnational religions. Theories develop directly from comparative field research this book's creative agenda should be both explored and further developed, and I would recommend it primarily to scholars in the fields of anthropology, Pentecostal studies, missiology, and world Christianity. • Pneuma. The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies

Well-written, accessible, and groundbreaking this book offers to rejuvenate the anthropology of Pentecostalism. • Jon Bialecki, University of Edinburgh

Ethnographically well-grounded, conceptually innovative, and experimental in its comparative approach. Although there have been many collaborative publications on global Pentecostalism, few are so well integrated and are able to develop arguments through a truly comparative ethnography. • Kim Knibbe, University of Groningen

Auteur

Annelin Eriksen is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. She is the author of Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu (Routledge, 2008), and her research mainly focuses on gender, social and cultural change, future, cosmology, and Christianity.

Texte du rabat

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long-term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world - in particular the emergence of "non-territorial" religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) - and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular.

Contenu

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

PART I: INTRODUCTIONS

Introduction: Going to 'Pentecost': Outline of an Experiment
Interlude: Locations in 'Pentecost'
Reading Guide

PART II: PRESENTATIONS FROM 'PENTECOST'

Chapter 1. Borders in 'Pentecost': Creating Protected Spaces
Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Life and Death: A New Moral Economy in 'Pentecost'
Chapter 3. Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road

PART III: THEORIES FROM 'PENTECOST'

Chapter 4. Borders and Abjections: Approaching Individualism in 'Pentecost'
Chapter 5. Engaging with Theories of Neoliberalism and Prosperity
Chapter 6. Ruptures and Encompassments: Towards an Absolute Truth

PART IV: COMMENTS

Chapter 7. Comparison Re-placed
Matei Candea

Chapter 8. Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism
Joel Robbins

Chapter 9. Life at The End of Time: A Note on Comparison, 'Pentecost' and the Trobriands
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen