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Author Werbner, Richard P.

Title Holy hustlers, schism, and prophecy : apostolic reformation in Botswana / Richard Werbner
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages)
Series The anthropology of Christianity ; 11
Anthropology of Christianity ; 11.
Contents [Book contents:] Holy hustling -- Between the prophetic and the pastoral -- The lives of prophets and bishops -- Escalating crisis : faith and trust "under destruction" -- Schism, innovation, and continuity -- Personal nearness and sincerity in prayer -- Diagnosis, reconnaissance, and fabrication -- Prescribing Christian cosmetics : moving bodies and intercorporeality -- Old and new in Chrisitian reformation -- From film to book -- dianoia and noesis
Summary This text examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between elders and young apostolic faith healers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index
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Subject Pentecostal churches -- Botswana -- Gaborone
Gaborone (Botswana) -- Church history
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Pentecostal churches
Botswana -- Gaborone
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696881
ISBN 9780520949461
0520949463
128327812X
9781283278126