Main description:

What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography and locating the village in historical and global context, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings as shaping and being shaped by their context and, in the process, shaping individuals themselves. As people move from local to global subjects, health here stretches beyond being a matter of individual bodies and is connected to worldwide flows and networks, spirit entities, and expansive moral orders.

Contents:

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: VILLAGE, SPIRITS, AND MORAL ORDER

Chapter 1. Trinidad village

Chapter 2. The material and other worlds

Chapter 3. Cosmological crafting and story-telling

PART II: DISORDER AND THE DEVIL

Chapter 4. The body and health

Chapter 5. The Devil in the body

Chapter 6. Healing the body

Chapter 7. The body in the village and in the State

Chapter 8. The Devil is disorder

Conclusion: Job, justice and moral order

Appendix: Churches in the Village

References

Index