Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief

A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the d...

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Contributors: Borg, Isabelle (Contributor) ; Clough, Paul (Contributor, Editor) ; Geschiere, Peter (Contributor) ; Meyer, Birgit (Contributor) ; Mitchell, Hildi J. (Contributor) ; Mitchell, Jon P. (Contributor, Editor) ; Theuma, Nadia (Contributor) ; Thoden van Velzen, Bonno (Contributor) ; Verrips, Jojada (Contributor) ; Wetering, Imeka van (Contributor)
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Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books [2001]
In:Year: 2001
Further subjects:B Social Change
B Ethnophilosophy
B Belief and doubt
B Good and evil
B SOCIAL SCIENCE  / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
B Philosophical Anthropology
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505 8 0 |t Contributors 
505 8 0 |t Introduction 
505 8 0 |t 1 Dangerous Creatures and the Enchantment of Modern Life 
505 8 0 |t 2 Witchcraft and New Forms of Wealth: Regional Variations in South and West Cameroon 
505 8 0 |t 3 The Devil, Satanism and the Evil Eye in Contemporary Malta 
505 8 0 |t 4 'You Devil, go away from me!' Pentecostalist African Christianity and the Powers of Good and Evil 
505 8 0 |t 5 Modernity, Crisis and the Rise of Charismatic Catholicism in the Maltese Islands 
505 8 0 |t 6 Good, Evil and Godhood: Mormon Morality in the Material World 
505 8 0 |t 7 The State and the Empire of Evil 
505 8 0 |t 8 The Iconography of Evil in Maltese Art 
505 8 0 |t Conclusions: The Political Economy behind the Powers of Good and Evil 
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