The Devil is Disorder : : Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village / / Rebecca Lynch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Lynch, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 Trinidad Village --; 2 The Material and Other Worlds --; 3 Cosmological Crafting and Storytelling --; 4 The Body and Health --; 5 The Devil in the Body --; 6 Healing the Body --; 7 The Devil in the Village and in the State --; 8 The Devil Is Disorder --; Conclusion: Job, Justice and Moral Order --; Appendix: Churches in the Village --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789204889; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789204889?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rebecca Lynch.

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.