{"product_id":"witchcraft-and-welfare-9780292771260","title":"Witchcraft and Welfare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterful ethnography of Puerto Rican brujos, who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall, \u003ci\u003eWitchcraft and Welfare\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent analysis of Puerto Rican Brujería and other African diasporic religions. This book, however, is not only useful for students and scholars of Puerto Rican or Caribbean culture and religion. It is also, through its ingenious analysis of the influences of 21st century globalization on the processes of syncretization, a window on the macrocosm of future trends in world religion. * The Journal of Latin American Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWitchcraft and Welfare\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightful and insightful book, evocative and well-written, which unpacks the multilayered history of Puerto Rican folk beliefs and practices convincingly showing not only how brujería makes sense in people’s everyday lives, but also how it is becoming institutionalised as an integral part of official Puerto Rican society, and indeed how beliefs and practices of this kind can be complementary, not opposed, to bureaucratic rationality. * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Ritual Alchemy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Shifting Faces \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One. Gatekeepers and Heretics: Disputing Sacred Territories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two. Nation Building and the Secularization of Spirituality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three. Spiritual Laissez-Faire and the Commodification of Faith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. The Technologies of Cosmic and Worldly Success \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four. Brujos, Saints or Brokers?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five. Spiritual Assets and the Entanglements of Power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Six. The Global Bazaar of Spiritual Enterprise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Seven. The Moral Economy of Bureaucratic Providence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eight. Advocates and Lawyers of Another Order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: The Halloween Extravaganza\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400881054039,"sku":"9780292771260","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292771260.jpg?v=1730471830","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/witchcraft-and-welfare-9780292771260","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}