Christian Revivalism and Political Imagination in Madagascar

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3932038
AutoresHilde Nielssen (0000-0003-3232-6278, University of Bergen, NorwayNattlandsaasen 5a, 5231 ParadisNorway, autor de correspondencia), Karina Hestad Skeie (NLA University College, Bergen, NorwaySolåsen 27, 5223 NesttunNorway)
Año2014
Volumen44
Número2
Páginas189-223
Fecha de publicación2014-05-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700666-12340004
OpenAlexW2074012619
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas26

The point of departure for this paper is the particular role of Christian movements in Madagascar's most recent political crisis. During the coup d'état in March 2009, ritual specialists from the Christian revival movementFifohazanawere called on to carry out an exorcism to cleanse the presidential palace of evil forces. This incident not only shows the significance of Christian revival movements within the Malagasy political landscape and society in general, but also indicates how Malagasy politics is imagined in spiritual terms. With its recurrent efforts to restore the nation-state, Malagasy national politics is impossible to understand without taking into account how thoroughly the Malagasy political imagination is infused with the cosmology and ontologies of power. This paper explores the ambivalent relationships between the various Christian movements and national politics in the light of history as well as through the recent transmutations of power, showing howFifohazanahave provided a site for the (re)production of the contemporary political imagination

Aesthetics · Exorcism · History of religions · Political movement · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies