Afterword
Academics, Pentecostals, and Witches: The Struggle for Clarity and the Power of the Murky
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20079963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Geschiere (0000-0002-2290-6984, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 281-291 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Pentecostalism and Witchcraft (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7_12 |
| OpenAlex | W2765988415 |
| ISBN | 9783319560687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
One of the many strong points of this collection is that it vividly shows the kaleidoscopic character of phenomena for which people use terms like witchcraft or sorcery. Almost anything seems to be possible: the stereotype for witches in many parts of Melanesia seem to be that they are ‘backwards and ugly’ (see Introduction, this volume), but in Thomas Strong’s contribution on Eastern Highlands of Papua they are envied because they live in a world that people describe as ‘highly ordered, flashy and modern’; Congolese Pentecostals suspect that witches now work through modern technology (Katrien Pype, this volume); but Bjørn Enge Bertelsen shows that they themselves can also be suspected—as in Mozambique where German Pentecostal
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |