Mapping the spatial limbos of spiritual warfare

Haunted Houses, Defiled Land and the Horrors of History

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4318136
AutoresSean Mccloud (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen9
Número2
Páginas166-185
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMaterial Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1743-2200 • E-ISSN: 1751-8342
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/175183413x13703410896690
OpenAlexW2012342337
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas24

Through an examination of spiritual warfare handbooks, this article hopes to make material both Third Wave Evangelical imaginings of physical space and their rituals to purify it, activities that might be described as attempts to fix the interstitial into position, to name it and claim for it a classification and moral assessment. Spiritual warfare manuals teach Evangelical readers how to exorcise ("deliver") people, objects and places from the unwelcome demons who have taken residence in them. Specifically, I focus on two spaces and places that garner a great deal of attention in this literature: "haunted houses" and "defiled land." I argue that these locations, in the Third Wave Evangelical imaginary, may be described as "spatial limbos"—interstitial and contested no-man's lands in which the sins of history materialize in the form of demons. Such sites are spiritual battlefields that, far from being empty, are over-determined with ambivalent meaning and significance.Keywords: spiritual warfareThird WaveEvangelicalismDemonsspatial limboshaunted housesdefiled landdeliverance

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