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Holy hustlers, schism, and prophecy : apostolic reformation in Botswana / Richard Werbner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology of Christianity ; 11.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520949461
  • 0520949463
  • 128327812X
  • 9781283278126
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Holy hustlers, schism, and prophecy.DDC classification:
  • 276.883/083 22
LOC classification:
  • BX8762.A45
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
[Book contents:] Holy hustling -- Between the prophetic and the pastoral -- The lives of prophets and bishops -- Escalating crisis : faith and trust "under destruction" -- Schism, innovation, and continuity -- Personal nearness and sincerity in prayer -- Diagnosis, reconnaissance, and fabrication -- Prescribing Christian cosmetics : moving bodies and intercorporeality -- Old and new in Chrisitian reformation -- From film to book -- dianoia and noesis.
Summary: This text examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between elders and young apostolic faith healers.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)361055

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.

[Book contents:] Holy hustling -- Between the prophetic and the pastoral -- The lives of prophets and bishops -- Escalating crisis : faith and trust "under destruction" -- Schism, innovation, and continuity -- Personal nearness and sincerity in prayer -- Diagnosis, reconnaissance, and fabrication -- Prescribing Christian cosmetics : moving bodies and intercorporeality -- Old and new in Chrisitian reformation -- From film to book -- dianoia and noesis.

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This text examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between elders and young apostolic faith healers.