ONE Between Science and Superstition: Religion and the Modern Subject of the Nation in Colonial India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION Magic and Modernity 1
5. ONE Between Science and Superstition: Religion and the Modern Subject of the Nation in Colonial India 39
6. TWO Undying Past: Spirit Possession and the Memory of War in Southern Mozambique 60
7. THREE Robert Kaplan and "Juju Journalism" in Sierra Leone's Rebel War: The Primitivizing of an African Conflict 81
8. FOUR The Citizen's Trance: The Haitian Revolution and the Motor of History 103
9. FIVE Hidden Forces: Colonialism and the Politics of Magic in the Netherlands Indies 129
10. SIX On Witch Doctors and Spin Doctors: The Role of "Experts" in African and American Politics 159
11. SEVEN The Magical Power of the (Printed) Word 183
12. EIGHT Ghanaian Popular Cinema and the Magic in and of Film 200
13. NINE Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Modern Medicine Between Magic and Science 223
14. TEN Spirits of Modernity: Alfred Wallace, Edward Tylor, and the Visual Politics of Fact 241
15. ELEVEN Viscerality, Faith, and Skepticism: Another Theory of Magic 272
16. NOTES 307
17. REFERENCES 343
18. CONTRIBUTORS 375
19. INDEX 379