Going to Pentecost

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long-term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world - in particular the emergence of "non-territorial" religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) - and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular.

Annelin Eriksen is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. She is the author of Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu (Routledge, 2008), and her research mainly focuses on gender, social and cultural change, future, cosmology, and Christianity.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTIONS Introduction: Going to 'Pentecost': Outline of an Experiment
Interlude: Locations in 'Pentecost'
Reading Guide PART II: PRESENTATIONS FROM 'PENTECOST' Chapter 1. Borders in 'Pentecost': Creating Protected Spaces
Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Life and Death: A New Moral Economy in 'Pentecost'
Chapter 3. Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road PART III: THEORIES FROM 'PENTECOST' Chapter 4. Borders and Abjections: Approaching Individualism in 'Pentecost'
Chapter 5. Engaging with Theories of Neoliberalism and Prosperity
Chapter 6. Ruptures and Encompassments: Towards an Absolute Truth PART IV: COMMENTS Chapter 7. Comparison Re-placed
Matei Candea Chapter 8. Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism
Joel Robbins Chapter 9. Life at The End of Time: A Note on Comparison, 'Pentecost' and the Trobriands
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Chapter 10. Wealth versus Money in Pentecost: Why Is Money Good?
Knut Rio Chapter 11. 'Pentecost' in The World
Birgit Meyer Index