ABSTRACT

I explore the view that efficacy in Pentecostal healing depends on confidence, or unwavering belief. My focus is on emic notions of failure – how people explain failures of therapy in their own terms – rather than on failures in the procedure employed or the inadequacies of the healer. Although anthropologists have criticised the notion of belief, my ethnographic example suggests that it remains useful, particularly since in this case it is central to the assessment of failure. The Pentecostals discussed here see belief in a more material way, as embodied and intimately bound up with the reformative project of becoming a born again Christian.

中文翻译：

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治疗的失败：巴布亚新几内亚五旬节治疗的信仰、体现和局限

摘要

我探讨了这样一种观点，即五旬节治愈的功效取决于信心或坚定不移的信念。我的重点是失败的概念——人们如何用他们自己的方式解释治疗失败——而不是所采用的程序的失败或治疗师的不足。尽管人类学家批评了信仰的概念，但我的民族志例子表明它仍然有用，特别是因为在这种情况下它是评估失败的核心。这里讨论的五旬节派以更物质的方式看待信仰，体现并与成为重生基督徒的改革计划密切相关。