Going to Pentecost

This is an experimental approach to Pentecostalism, departing from previous studies;
It is explicitly comparative, with very close collaboration amongst the three authors;
It offers new possibilities for the study of religion in global context

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