Gendered Narratives of Illness and Healing: Experiences of Spirit Possession in a Charismatic Church Community in Tanzania
Faith in African Lived Christianity September 11, 2019 Lotta Gammelin 5 citations
Church services at the Gospel Miracle Church for All People (gmcl)1 follow a dramatic pattern that is always very similar: the culmination point comes after the sermon and offering with the healing session in which women lost in spirit trances become the focus of the congregation’s attention. Usually they scream, resist, and try to escape, and several people are required to hold them down and...