This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and
Melanesia-where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and
transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an
adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches demons and sorcerers as manifestations of
evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare in crusades and in healing or
witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address
as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal
demonology vocabulary and confrontational methodology.
