Conversão do marido espiritual: a realização da imaginação pentecostal em Moçambique

Mozambican women attending the services of the Brazilian Pentecostal
churches in the capital Maputo say they are tormented by a violent spirit with
whom they would be married. This spirit of vengeance is often related to occurrences of wars in the past and to a type of witchcraft in which family members donate or sell a virgin to a spirit that will bring wealth to the family. This contribution suggests that the high number of spiritual husbands in Maputo attests to the complex relationships between relatives, boyfriends, couples, and humans and spirits in contemporary Mozambican society as part of a long history of wars, migrations, Portuguese colonialism and recent socioeconomic transformations. However, Pentecostal women enter a new Pentecostal spiritual war, in which they must fight against spirits, relatives and husbands. The article shows the significance of spiritual signs in the lives of the Pentecostal women in Mozambique, not only as a passive imagination or spiritual experience, but also as an active force. The women incorporate Pentecostal signs to fight against the power of the husband spirit over their lives and to realize a new life.