Seductive Spirits

Reviews / Votes

"An exacting, compelling, lucid, and pace setting account of the practice of deliverance inviting a critical and rigorous rethinking of the ministerial stewardship of deliverance in contemporary African Pentecostalism."-Elias Bongmba, Rice University "However disturbing its insight into bodies and desires might be, Seductive Spirits skillfully navigates the risk of ethnographic voyeurism by thematizing our discomfort and reflecting on the related ethical and theoretical challenges. It is one of the most thought-provoking and boundary-pushing studies of Pentecostalism I have come across since long."-Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds "Those familiar with the anthropology of pentecostal-charismaticism will recognize that its pneumacentric spirituality both presumes and enables the pervasiveness of witchcraft that, in turn, ensures a continual haunting of 'Christian life' and thereby also the never-ending need for deliverance. All the more reason for us to attend to this book."-Amos Young, Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity "Seductive Spirits is a sophisticated and significant contribution to the field of Pentecostal studies and African religion in general. While it inserts itself into a very crowded field of scholarship on Pentecostalism that has in one way or another argued for the need to take the demonic serious, it breaks new ground, both through its detailed ethnographic descriptions of demonic eroticism and through its theoretical analysis of deliverance as being about so much more than simply getting rid of demons."-Martin Lindhardt, Reading Religion "Ghana is a frequent site for studies of African Pentecostalism, and many of them focus on the prosperity gospel and rituals of deliverance.Seductive Spiritsadds to this growing body of literature, giving special attention to the body, sensuality, and deliverance (or the failure to be delivered) from sex with demons.... Recommended."-D. Jacobsen, CHOICE