Stories of healing in Ivory Coast: The spoken and unspoken premises of spirituality

This article questions the notion of spirituality through the prism of contemporary practices of spiritual healing in urban Ivory Coast. More specifically, the article draws on stories of therapeutic trajectories undertaken by various categories of urban actors in the context of large-scale therapeutic spaces such as Christian prayer camps and Ruqyah clinics. The analysis focuses on the ways in which these institutions, which are popular with youth and women, are helping to define new ways of looking at spirituality, healing, spiritual afflictions and religiosity.