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Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and IllnessVolume 33, Issue 1, 2014Special Issue: Turning Therapies: Placing Medical Diversity |
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Space in Pentecostal Healing Practices among Ghanaian Migrants in London
- DOI:
- 10.1080/01459740.2013.846339
pages 37-51
- Accepted author version posted online: 27 Sep 2013
Published online: 02 Jan 2014
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Abstract
In this article I analyze different spatial practices related to Pentecostal healing, drawing on fieldwork with Pentecostal believers who have migrated from Ghana to London, UK. I explore the relationship between space and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit by looking at how points of contact with the divine are created in the personal life of people and at the sites where the casting out of demons takes place. Unlike in other spirit-centered healing traditions, the Christian Holy Spirit is not conceived of as embodied in specific places, but rather is spatially unbound. To manifest, however, the Holy Spirit requires specific spatial qualities and esthetics.
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- Accepted author version posted online: 27 Sep 2013
- Published online: 02 Jan 2014
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- a Department of Sociology and Anthropology , University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
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