Review: Speaking of Satan in Zambia: Making Cultural and Personal Sense of Narratives about Satanism, by Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Speaking of Satan in Zambia: Making Cultural and Personal Sense of Narratives about Satanism, by Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps Speaking of Satan in Zambia: Making Cultural and Personal Sense of Narratives about Satanism. By Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps. AOSIS Scholarly Books, 2022. xvi + 250 pages. Open access; ebook only. Blair Alan Gadsby Blair Alan Gadsby Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2023) 27 (2): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.125 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Blair Alan Gadsby; Review: Speaking of Satan in Zambia: Making Cultural and Personal Sense of Narratives about Satanism, by Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps. Nova Religio 1 November 2023; 27 (2): 125–127. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.125 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search Speaking of Satan in Zambia is a comprehensive overview of the research into Satanism in the southern African nation of Zambia, as well as an examination of its theological and cultural connections to western views. Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps accomplishes this, she readily admits, by virtue of the fact that “[n]arratives about Satanism have a relatively short history in Zambia” (32), beginning only in the 1990s. As her own narrative progresses, she cites parallel research from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana and Lesotho. The volume also contains many testimonials from the primary research the author conducted for her dissertation. Consequently, what this book offers are first-hand ethnographic accounts of how belief in Satan, evil forces and the evil “other,” and the ways to combat them, are culturally expressed in African modernity and in the context of global Christian discourses on evil. After examining the various theologies of Satanism, anti-Satanism, witchcraft,... You do not currently have access to this content.