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• Title:The devil is disorder : bodies, spirits and misfortune in a Trinidadian village / Rebecca Lynch.
  
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• Variant Title:Bodies, spirits and misfortune in a Trinidadian village
  
• Author/Creator:Lynch, Rebecca (Research fellow), author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Berghahn Books.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN477 .L96 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Health--Religious aspects--Christianity.
  Evangelicalism--Trinidad and Tobago.
  Trinidad and Tobago--Religious life and customs.
  
• Medical Subjects: Christianity.
  Anthropology, Medical.
  Social Conditions.
  Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.
  Trinidad and Tobago.
  
• Description:ix, 251 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:What role might the Devil have in health and illness? 'The Devil is Disorder' explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography and locating the village in historical and global context, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings as shaping and being shaped by their context and, in the process, shaping individuals themselves. As people move from local to global subjects, health here stretches beyond being a matter of individual bodies and is connected to worldwide flows and networks, spirit entities, and expansive moral orders.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1789204879 hardcover
  9781789204872 hardcover
  
• Contents:Introduction
  Part 1. Village, spirits and moral order
  Trinidad Village
  The material and other worlds
  Cosmological crafting and story-telling
  Part 2. Disorder and the devil
  The body and health
  The devil in the body
  Healing the body
  The body in the village and in the state
  The devil is disorder
  Conclusion. Job, justice and moral order.