The Devil Is Disorder: Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

by Rebecca Lynch

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789204879
• ISBN13: 9781789204872
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"