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This book examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently
underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that
divides the church between the elders and the young, apostolic
faith healers. Richard Werbner focuses on Eloyi, an Apostolic
faith-healing church in Botswana's capital. Werbner shows how
charismatic 'prophets' - holy hustlers - diagnose, hustle, and
shock patients during violent and destructive exorcisms. He also
shows how these healers enter into prayer and meditation and take
on their patients' pain and how their ecstatic devotions create an
aesthetic in which beauty beckons God. Werbner challenges
theoretical assumptions about mimesis and empathy, the power of the
word, and personhood. With its accompanying DVD, "Holy Hustlers,
Schism, and Prophecy" integrates textual and filmed ethnography and
provides a fresh perspective on ritual performance and the
cinematic.
This thesis presented to the University of Munich uses early
theological, legal and political writings by Hugo Grotius to
determine his political position and the argumentative strategies
he deployed in the Arminianic controversy and the political
conflicts at the beginning of the 17th century. Particular value is
attached to a reading of Grotiusa (TM) statements in the context of
contemporary politics. As a Christian humanist, he moderated the
various points at issue and appealed to the warring factions to
exercise tolerance and seek reconciliation.
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