Des affaires du corps aux affaires politiques
Le champ de la guérison divine au Congo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19001674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Tonda (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-420 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/003776801048003007 |
| OpenAlex | W2006978958 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
The author argues that the paradigm of divine healing which dominated Brazzaville (Congo) society during the 1980s was largely encouraged by the government in the one-party state as part of the image it wished to project, including charismatic cults built around “strongmen”, ambiguous relations with fetishistic practices and religion in general, and above all an ethic of persecution and struggle against sorcery. The “structures of causality” of evil, the rituals of divine healing and curing, and various arrangements regarding confessions and investigations, all affected the exercise of power in the region in political, medical and religious terms, and these structures and arrangements created openings for prophets and anti-sorcery pastors to emerge at the centre of ethnic and national conflicts. Prophetic violence is found to draw some of its force from the subversive power of a fetishism of the human body and of female sexuality, which confirms the close link between the human body and the body politic
Charisma · Human sexuality · Humanities · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy
Miracles et obéissance. Le discours de la guérison divine à l'Eglise Universelle
L'Église des Assemblées de Dieu du Burkina-Faso. Histoire, transitions et recompositions identitaires / The Church of the Assemblies of God in Burkina-Faso
If You Are a Devil, You Are a Witch and, If You Are a Witch, You Are a Devil.' the Integration of 'Pagan' Ideas Into the Conceptual Universe of Ewe Christians in Southeastern Ghana1
Conversions aux assemblées de Dieu chez les Mossi du Burkina-Faso
Culture pentecôtiste et charisme visionnaire au sein d'une Église indépendante africaine / Pentecostalist Culture and Visionary Charism Within an Indépendant African Church
Jazz et vin de palme
La guerre dans le «Camp Nord» au Congo-Brazzaville
Marx et l'ombre des fétiches. Pouvoir local contre ndjobi dans le Nord-Congo
Le syndrome du prophète
Messies, fétiches et lutte de pouvoirs entre les « grands hommes » du Congo démocratique
La sape des mikilistes
"Les églises pentecôtistes africaines, Satan et la dissociation de " la tradition
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |