1st Edition
Pentecostal Exorcisms in Contemporary Society An Ethnographic Study of Ritual and the Making of the Religious Other
Introduction 1. Who are “they” in exorcism rituals? Theory and fieldwork 2. The cultural background of Pentecostalism and its exorcisms 3. Exorcisms, health and wealth—the body and materiality of exorcisms 4. “(…) Whether by Macumba or Sin”—Witchcraft, agency and race in Pentecostal exorcisms 6. The digitalization of exorcisms 7. Targeting others: the mouth of the wicked, violence, and backlash Conclusion Index
Biography
Leonardo Vasconcelos de Castro Moreira is a FAPESP postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, where he is a member of the Laboratório de Antropologia da Religião (LAR). He was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven, Belgium, and received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick, UK.
