This article uses the analytical tool of divine kinship to explore political charisma across Indian and Venezuelan democratic social revolutions. In both contexts, charismatic elected political leaders build their image of strength and action on a wide repertoire of cultural and religious resources that are legitimated by divine kinship. The juxtaposition of the Indian and Venezuelan political ethnographies shows how charismatic kinship inflects lived understandings of popular sovereignty and opens up spaces for holding personality politics accountable.
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Sons of Krishna and sons of Bolivar
Charismatic kinship and leadership across India and Venezuela
Lucia Michelutti
Supersessionism
Harsh, Mild or Gone For Good?
Gavin D’Costa
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Battle of Cosmologies
The Catholic Church, Adat, and ‘Inculturation’ among Northern Lio, Indonesia
Signe Howell
. From an early focus on the formal conversion of pagans to Catholic Christianity, foreign priests allowed people to continue those adat practices that were not anathema to them. 7 As a result of Vatican II (1962–1965), a new approach called
War and Memory
The Israeli Communist Commemoration of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1986
Amir Locker-Biletzki
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