Chapter 1 Why Animism Matters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Divinity, Disease, Distress 1
5. Chapter 1 Why Animism Matters 9
6. Chapter 2 Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure: Panama’s Black Christ 25
7. Chapter 3 Madness and Miracles: Hoping for Healing in Rural Ghana 45
8. Chapter 4 ‘Sakawa’ Rumours Occult Internet Fraud and Ghanaian Identity 67
9. Chapter 5 To Heal the Body: The Body as Congregation among Post-Surgical Patients in Benin 93
10. Chapter 6 Addiction and the Duality of the Self in a North American Religio- Therapeutic Community 116
11. Chapter 7 Religious Conversion and Madness: Contested Territory in the Peruvian Andes 133
12. Chapter 8 Cosmologies of Fear: The Medicalization of Anxiety in Contemporary Britain 154
13. Chapter 9 Functionalists and Zombis: Sorcery as Spandrel and Social Rescue 176
14. Chapter 10 Religion and Psychosis: A Common Evolutionary Trajectory? 191
15. Index 211