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Sorcery [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Religion & Film, 2023
This is a film review of Sorcery (2023), directed by Christopher ...
Lyden, John C.
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Sorcery and Witchcraft: A Critical Challenge in Papua New Guinea [PDF]

open access: yesReligion and Social Communication
In the modern age of the twenty-first century, with rapid developments in technology and science, accusations of sorcery and witchcraft appear to be occurring with increasing and spreading regularity throughout Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country in the ...
Tuan Viet Cao
doaj   +2 more sources

Sorcery and witchcraft beliefs on the front line of public health response in Papua New Guinea and beyond. [PDF]

open access: yesWestern Pac Surveill Response J
Problem: Many communities refer to sorcery or witchcraft to explain misfortunes such as sickness, death and disability. The effects of these beliefs on public health service delivery have long been overlooked.
Forsyth M   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Sorcery in the Black Atlantic

open access: yes, 2011
Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions.
Sansi-Roca, Roger, Parés, Luis Nicolau
core   +7 more sources

Sihr (Sorcery) in Sweden

open access: yesTidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2022
This article describes the principles of sihr (sorcery) from an Islamic perspective, starting with discussion of how to become a sorcerer and how to perform sorcery with the help of satanic djinns and amulets.
Michael Marlow
doaj   +1 more source

A plastic treatment of quackery and sorcery through mixed techniques in intaglio printing [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2022
Summary:God created Adam, peace be upon him, from clay, created Eve from him, made him a caliph on earth, taught him all the names, then ordered the angels to prostrate to him, and they worshiped him except Satan refrained from obeying the command of God,
Nageba elwafi
doaj   +1 more source

احادیث سحر کا مسئلہ عصمت انبیاءکے تناظر میں تحقیقی جائزہ

open access: yesالضحی, 2021
The existence of the effects of magic is proved by the Holy Qur'an, it can not be denied, but the question arises whether the effects of magic also affect the Prophets? It is  narrated in many Ahadith the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was effected by evil 
Shafique Rahman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Facing Scarcity in a Land Grab Context in Cameroon

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2021
This paper undertakes a critical exploration of the mechanisms via which communities cope with scarcity resulting from land grabs. It explores two ranges of practices – residential multilocality and sorcery – through the lens of resilience.
Hugues Morell Meliki
doaj   +1 more source

Cannibal Basques

open access: yesExchanges, 2020
This article will show the importance of cannibalism in the description of the sabbath among the Basques, in the Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons, written by Pierre De Lancre.
Matteo Leta
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing the Sorcery National Action Plan (SNAP): The Need for Coordinated Participatory Research and for the Development of Effective Communication Strategies

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2017
The Sorcery National Action Plan (SNAP) is an analytical policy document developed as an intervention strategy in response to increased accounts of sorcery and witchcraft-related violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Alex Agai Botu
doaj   +1 more source

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