Powers of good and evil : moralities, commodities 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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Other Authors: Clough, Paul, 1948- (Editor), Mitchell, Jon P. (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.
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246 3 4 |a Powers of good and evil :  |b social transformation and popular belief 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Berghahn Books,  |c 2001. 
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505 0 |a Introduction / Jon P. Mitchell -- Dangerous creatures and the enchantment of modern life / Bonno Thoden van Velzen and Ineke van Wetering -- Witchcraft and new forms of wealth : regional variations in South and West Cameroon / Peter Geschiere -- The Devil, Satanism and the evil eye in contemporary Malta / Jon P. Mitchell -- "You Devil, go away from me!" Pentecostalist African Christianity and the powers of good and evil / Birgit Meyer -- Modernity, crisis and the rise of charismatic Catholicism in the Maltese Islands / Nadia Theuma -- Good, evil and godhood : Mormon morality in the material world / Hildi J. Mitchell -- The state and the empire of evil / Jojada Verrips -- The iconography of evil in Maltese art / Isabelle Borg -- Conclusions : The political economy behind the powers of good and evil / Paul Clough. 
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