{"product_id":"seductive-spirits-deliverance-demons-and-sexual-worldmaking-in-ghanaian-pentecostalism-hardback-9781503637931","title":"Seductive Spirits; Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism (Hardback) 9781503637931","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSeductive Spirits\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDeliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNathanael Homewood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503637931\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.493 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An exacting, compelling, lucid, and pace setting account of the practice of deliverance inviting a critical and rigorous rethinking of the ministerial stewardship of deliverance in contemporary African Pentecostalism.\"—Elias Bongmba, Rice University \"However disturbing its insight into bodies and desires might be, \u003ci\u003eSeductive Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully navigates the risk of ethnographic voyeurism by thematizing our discomfort and reflecting on the related ethical and theoretical challenges. It is one of the most thought-provoking and boundary-pushing studies of Pentecostalism I have come across since long.\"—Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds \"Those familiar with the anthropology of pentecostal-charismaticism will recognize that its pneumacentric spirituality both presumes and enables the pervasiveness of witchcraft that, in turn, ensures a continual haunting of 'Christian life' and thereby also the never-ending need for deliverance. All the more reason for us to attend to this book.\"—Amos Young, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSeductive Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e is a sophisticated and significant contribution to the field of Pentecostal studies and African religion in general. While it inserts itself into a very crowded field of scholarship on Pentecostalism that has in one way or another argued for the need to take the demonic serious, it breaks new ground, both through its detailed ethnographic descriptions of demonic eroticism and through its theoretical analysis of deliverance as being about so much more than simply getting rid of demons.\"—Martin Lindhardt, \u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e \"Ghana is a frequent site for studies of African Pentecostalism, and many of them focus on the prosperity gospel and rituals of deliverance.\u003ci\u003eSeductive Spirits\u003c\/i\u003eadds to this growing body of literature, giving special attention to the body, sensuality, and deliverance (or the failure to be delivered) from sex with demons.... Recommended.\"—D. Jacobsen, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePentecostalism, Africa's fastest-growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies. Among Ghanaian Pentecostals, deliverance is primary among the embodied, experiential gifts—a loud, messy, and noisy experience that ends only when the possessed body falls to the ground silent and docile, the evil spirits rendered powerless in the face of the holy spirit-wielding-prophets. And nowhere is Ghanaian Pentecostal obsession with demons more pronounced than with sexual demons. In this book, Nathanael Homewood examines the frequent and varied experiences of spirit possession and sex with demons that constitute a vital part of Pentecostal deliverance ministries, offering insight into these practices assembled from long-term ethnographic engagement with four churches in Accra, the capital of Ghana. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelying on the uniqueness of the Pentecostal sensorium, this book unravels how spirits and sexuality intimately combine to expand the definition of the body beyond its fleshy boundaries. Demons are a knowledge regime, one that shapes how Pentecostals think about, engage with, and construct the cosmos. Deliverance Pentecostals reiterate and tarry with the demonic, especially sexually, as a realm of invention whereby alternative ways of being, sensing, and having sex are dreamed, practiced, and performed. Ultimately, Homewood argues for a distinction between colonial demonization and decolonial demons, charting another path to understanding being, the body, and sexualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Historical and Contemporary Scenes\u003cbr\u003e  2. Indecent Scenes\u003cbr\u003e  3. Singular Scenes\u003cbr\u003e  4. Scenes of Struggle\u003cbr\u003e  5. Spousal Scenes\u003cbr\u003e  6. Serpentine Scenes\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Decolonial Demons\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610699133208,"sku":"9781503637931","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/seductive-spirits-deliverance-demons-and-sexual-worldmaking-in-ghanaian-pentecostalism-hardback-9781503637931","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}