Bongmba, Elias K.2019-05-172019-08-012018-082018-06-07August 201Homewood, Nathanael J.. "Pneumoeroticism: An Erotic Hermeneutic of Body and Spirit in Ghanaian Pentecostalism." (2018) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105813">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105813</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105813Relying on ethnographic data from 8 months of fieldwork in Accra, Ghana, my dissertation examines the centrality of sex and sexuality in Pentecostal deliverance. In particular, turning to the senses, it demonstrates how the ubiquity of sex and sexuality in deliverance is vital to the Pentecostal view of body and spirit and the relationship between those entities. From a masturbating man, to the spirits of lesbianism, to sexual experiences with spirits and spirit animals, sex is used to expand the definition of the body beyond its fleshy boundaries and to make spirits immanent. To capture interpret these sexualized phenomenon, the dissertation concludes by offering a hermeneutic that I call pneumoeroticism.  application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.PentecostalismSexualityThesis2019-05-17