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The Devil Is Disorder: Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

by Rebecca Lynch

  • Hardback
  • 284 pages
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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Explores how faith impacts views on health today

Shows how spiritual beliefs shape modern living

This insightful ethnographic study explores how evangelical Christian beliefs shape understandings of health, illness and the spirit world in a Trinidadian village.

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What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography and locating the village in historical and global context, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings as shaping and being shaped by their context and, in the process, shaping individuals themselves. As people move from local to global subjects, health here stretches beyond being a matter of individual bodies and is connected to worldwide flows and networks, spirit entities, and expansive moral orders.
The Devil Is Disorder: Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityThe Devil Is Disorder: Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

  • Title

    The Devil Is Disorder: Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

  • Author

    Rebecca Lynch

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Berghahn Books

  • Published

    November 2019

  • Weight

    518g

  • Page Count

    284

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781789204872

  • ISBN-10

    1789204879

  • Eden Code

    5231707