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• Nominated for Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing 2016

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This is a marvelous ethnography of the contact zone in which African Pentecostals engage with Italian Catholics. Offering deep insight into both Pentecostal and Catholic aesthetic regimes, Annalisa Butticci magisterially unpacks their clashes and unexpected convergences with regard to relics, images, and religious sensations. The result is a thoroughly grounded, highly innovative theoretical intervention that spotlights the power of a political-aesthetic approach in capturing the evocation of real presence via competing registers.--Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University

In an era of intensified mobility, when the spiritual landscape in Europe seems beset by a friction of faiths, Butticci s scintillating, innovative book reveals a less-noted dynamic: the expansion of contact zones, in which seemingly different denominations rub up against one another, to discover unexpected resonances including the surprisingly similar ways in which Catholics and Pentecostals in Italy work to make real the presence of divine power in the lives of believers. The result is a study of unusual insight, humanity, and imagination.--Jean Comaroff, Harvard University

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Annalisa Butticci is Marie Curie Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and Utrecht University.

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