Powers of good and evil : moralities, commodities and popular belief /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.
Description:	vii, 256 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnophilosophy. Philosophical anthropology. Belief and doubt. Good and evil. Social change. Belief and doubt. Ethnophilosophy. Good and evil. Philosophical anthropology. Social change.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4496677

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Other authors / contributors:	Clough, Paul. Mitchell, Jon P.
ISBN:	1571819924 1571813136 (pbk : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Dangerous Creatures and the Enchantment of Modern Life
Chapter 2. Witchcraft and New Forms of Wealth: Regional Variations in South and West Cameroon
Chapter 3. The Devil, Satanism and the Evil Eye in Contemporary Malta
Chapter 4. 'You Devil, Go Away from Me!' Pentecostalist African Christianity and the Powers of Good and Evil
Chapter 5. Modernity, Crisis, and the Rise of Charismatic Catholicism in Maltese Islands
Chapter 6. Good, Evil and Godhood: Mormon Morality in the Material World
Chapter 7. The State and the Empire of Evil
Chapter 8. The Iconography of Evil in Maltese Art
Conclusions: The Political Economy behind the Powers of Good and Evil
Index

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