Seductive Spirits in Feminist Spaces: Demons and their Otherwise Possibilities
Nathanael Homewood’s Seductive Spirits recontextualizes and theorizes demons within deliverance Pentecostal worldmaking. By engaging Homewood’s work in dialogue with African feminist concerns, this article argues argue that Seductive Spirits rejects colonial and secularized feminist frameworks of th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2025, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 121-128 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ghosts
B Pentecostalism B Demons B Haunting B "African feminism" |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Nathanael Homewood’s Seductive Spirits recontextualizes and theorizes demons within deliverance Pentecostal worldmaking. By engaging Homewood’s work in dialogue with African feminist concerns, this article argues argue that Seductive Spirits rejects colonial and secularized feminist frameworks of the metaphorical spectral. This article suggests that by instead acknowledging ghosts, demons, and ancestors as merciful and material, Homewood’s work provokes further creative and decolonial possibilities for African feminists. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.13.1.0121 |
