Ethnography and historical imagination in reading Jesus as an exorcist
The essay starts by looking at how Jesus as healer and exorcist has been interpreted in European tradition and points out the association between this interpretation and the secularisation of the body and the development of medicine as key aspects of modernization of Western societies. The next part...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2010, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 327-341 |
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| Summary: | The essay starts by looking at how Jesus as healer and exorcist has been interpreted in European tradition and points out the association between this interpretation and the secularisation of the body and the development of medicine as key aspects of modernization of Western societies. The next part shows by using a case study from Ethnography and the Historical Imagination by John and Jean Comaroff how modern medicine and colonisation were closely linked. A third part presents a counter-position from a study from Colombia by the anthropologist Michael Taussig. Taussig describes how shamanism functioned as an expression of local power against the effects of colonisation. Inspired by perspectives from the Comaroffs and Taussig the last part suggests a reading of the Beelzebul pericopee in Luke 11:14-20 from a "hermeneutics of suspicion", focusing on the power aspects of the spatial terminology of the passage. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83390 |