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Author Lynch, Rebecca (Research fellow), author.

Title The devil is disorder : bodies, spirits and misfortune in a Trinidadian village / Rebecca Lynch
Published New York : Berghahn, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 251 pages)
Contents The Devil Is Disorder -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Village, Spirits and Moral Order -- Chapter 1. Trinidad Village -- Chapter 2. The Material and Other Worlds -- Chapter 3. Cosmological Crafting and Storytelling -- Part II. Disorder and the Devil -- Chapter 4. The Body and Health -- Chapter 5. The Devil in the Body -- Chapter 6. Healing the Body -- Chapter 7. The Devil in the Village and in the State -- Chapter 8. The Devil Is Disorder -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed May 4, 2020)
Subject Evangelicalism -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad
Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Medical anthropology -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad
Devil -- Christianity.
Cosmology.
cosmology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Medical anthropology
Manners and customs
Evangelicalism
Devil -- Christianity
Cosmology
Health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
SUBJECT Trinidad -- Religious life and customs
Trinidad -- Social life and customs
Trinidad -- Church history
Subject Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1789204887
9781789204889
Other Titles Bodies, spirits and misfortune in a Trinidadian village