The Devil is Disorder : : Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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