Translating the Fifohazana (Awakening)

The Politics of Healing and the Colonial Mission Legacy in African Christian Missionization

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3933374
AutoresBritt Halvorson (0000-0003-1114-4280, 1Colby College, Department of Anthropology 4700 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901, Email: [email protected], autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume40
Fascículo4
Páginas413-441
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157006610x545983
OpenAlexW2007433686
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2

This essay focuses on the evangelism of charismatic American Lutheran churches in Minneapolis/St. Paul by Merina Malagasy Lutheran pastors affiliated with the Fifohazana movement of Madagascar. By analyzing healing services led by one Malagasy revivalist, I argue that we may better understand how American Lutherans and Malagasy Lutherans are renegotiating the meaning of global Lutheranism while 'reenchanting' the body as a central interface of religious engagement. My main concern is to investigate how parallel framings of the healing services constitute a subtle traffic in representational forms that rework images of the global church

African studies · Archaeology · Charisma · Christianity · Colonialism · Epistemology · Evangelism · History of religions · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Religious experience · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Christian Theology and Mission · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies