Nathanael J. Homewood is a Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School.

"This really is a stunning piece of ethnographic work. Written with warmth and generosity, a genuine sense of bewilderment and wonder, as well as humility and impressive perceptiveness, the author never lets theory get ahead of him, never allows theoretical ruminations or disciplinary allegiance overtake a deeply rooted sense of responsibility to the living, breathing, and breathtakingly intense world under observation, and later, description." —Geertz Prize Committee --- "As a work of ethnography studying Ghanaian Pentecostalism, Homewood offers a more complex view on agency, demonstrating how spirit worldviews of Pentecostalism complicate decision-making." —Christopher Valencia, Religious Studies Review --- "This book offers rich insight into the psychosocial aspects of religious beliefs in relation to sexuality—that is, demonic interventions in sex. It is one of the few books I have read that presents a vivid picture of the everyday life of Pentecostal/charismatic Christians and how it intersects with sexuality, as evidenced by a wealth of firsthand primary data." —Daniel Yaw Fiaveh, Journal of Africana Religions --- "Seductive Spirits offers important insights into hitherto underexplored landscapes of sexual religious worldmaking. It invites us to trouble deep-seated assumptions concerning the ways in which we theorize embodiment in religion." —Nina Hoel, Journal of Africana Religions --- "Homewood's work makes a significant contribution to the discourse on decoloniality and knowledge production by exploring how demons and African Pentecostalism have othered Black and African people while offering ways to reconstitute that Other. His approach resonates with and offers much to Black and African feminists' arguments about knowledge and knowing." —Megan Robertson, Journal of Africana Religions --- "I appreciate how Homewood allows the reader to journey through the multiple deliverance scenes he writes about, thus troubling the nervous bifurcation between Pentecostalism and sex. In a milieu where conversations on sex and desire unfold furtively, the book's description of deliverance scenes as fecund with erotic possibilities highlights the liminality of these geographies." —Kwame Edwin Otu, Journal of Africana Religions --- "Nathanael J. Homewood's book Seductive Spirits is a boundary-pushing monograph that combines a groundbreaking theoretical approach to Ghanaian Pentecostalism with insightful ethnographic reflections around sex, colonialism, demonology, and human pleasure. The book is valuable and stimulating reading for researchers interested in sexuality, embodiment, spiritual possession, and deliverance rituals in West African Christianity." —Antonio Montañés Jiménez and Angelo Vasco, Journal of Africana Religions --- "Simply put, Homewood's account is highly erotic and deeply sensory. It invokes the sonic, ocular, and tactile senses to paint a lucid and vivid, yet intellectually stimulating account of human bodies and demons and the banishment of demons from human bodies." —Ruth Vida Amwe, Utambuzi --- "Ghana is a frequent site for studies of African Pentecostalism, and many of them focus on the prosperity gospel and rituals of deliverance.Seductive Spiritsadds to this growing body of literature, giving special attention to the body, sensuality, and deliverance (or the failure to be delivered) from sex with demons.... Recommended." —D. Jacobsen, CHOICE --- "Seductive Spirits is a sophisticated and significant contribution to the field of Pentecostal studies and African religion in general. While it inserts itself into a very crowded field of scholarship on Pentecostalism that has in one way or another argued for the need to take the demonic serious, it breaks new ground, both through its detailed ethnographic descriptions of demonic eroticism and through its theoretical analysis of deliverance as being about so much more than simply getting rid of demons." —Martin Lindhardt, Reading Religion --- "Those familiar with the anthropology of pentecostal-charismaticism will recognize that its pneumacentric spirituality both presumes and enables the pervasiveness of witchcraft that, in turn, ensures a continual haunting of 'Christian life' and thereby also the never-ending need for deliverance. All the more reason for us to attend to this book." —Amos Young, Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity --- "However disturbing its insight into bodies and desires might be, Seductive Spirits skillfully navigates the risk of ethnographic voyeurism by thematizing our discomfort and reflecting on the related ethical and theoretical challenges. It is one of the most thought-provoking and boundary-pushing studies of Pentecostalism I have come across since long." —Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds --- "An exacting, compelling, lucid, and pace setting account of the practice of deliverance inviting a critical and rigorous rethinking of the ministerial stewardship of deliverance in contemporary African Pentecostalism." —Elias Bongmba, Rice University