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Witchcraft beliefs around the world: An exploratory analysis

PLoS ONE, 2022
This paper presents a new global dataset on contemporary witchcraft beliefs and investigates their correlates. Witchcraft beliefs cut across socio-demographic groups but are less widespread among the more educated and economically secure.
Boris Gershman
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The Social Burden of Witchcraft accusation and Its Victims: An Exercise in Philosophy

Yoruba Studies Review, 2021
The killing and burning of witches in contemporary era seem to be unabated. The contemporary minds have not succeeded in ‘scienticising’ belief in witchcraft.
Olusegun Stephen Taiwo
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Encountering the Dain

HIMALAYA, 2023
Outwardly, most Gaddi people refute the relevance and danger of witchcraft in present times. At another level, however, rumors of jadu (witchcraft, or spells and curses performed by a witch) and opara (black magic, or curses that may be performed by ...
Nikita Simpson
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Child witchcraft confessions as an idiom of distress in Sierra Leone; results of a rapid qualitative inquiry and recommendations for mental health interventions

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2021
Background Reports about child witchcraft are not uncommon in sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we approach child witchcraft as an idiom of distress.
Hélène N. C. Yoder, Joop T. V. M. de Jong, Wietse A. Tol, Joshua A. Duncan, Amjata Bayoh, Ria Reis   +5 more
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Chuma Ulete: Business and Discourses of Witchcraft in Neoliberal Tanzania [PDF]

Journal for the Study of Religion, 2020
The private business sector has been expanding rapidly in urban Tanzania since the country started liberalizing its economy in the 1980s. Witchcraft discourses linked to the business sector have emerged side by side with the increased liberalization of ...
Jacqueline H. Mgumia
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Witchcraft and witchcraft-related violence in AmaZizi chiefdom of kwaZangashe, Eastern Cape

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article explores witchcraft-related violence against elderly women in the AmaZizi chiefdom of kwaZangashe in Eastern Cape, South Africa. The potential causes that have promoted such violence form the central subject of the study.
Nanette de Jong, Jongisilo Pokwana ka Menziwa   +1 more
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Contrary to nature : Inuit conception of witchcraft

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1987
The present contribution to the phenomenology of witchcraft will depend for its data on the traditional conceptions, rites, and folklore of witchcraft among the Inuit (Eskimo) of Čanada and Greenland.
Daniel Merkur
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Overcoming fear? A search for an empowering theological response to the fear of witchcraft among urban Zimbabwean Christians

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018
How can we make theological sense of the resilience of the fear of witchcraft among indigenous Zimbabwean Christians? From the perspective of the transcendence and immanence of God, this article analyses the resilience of the fear of witchcraft among ...
Collium Banda, Gift Masengwe
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“The Witch’s Mirror”: A Review of Scholarship on Witchcraft and a Reassessment Based on the Intersectional Lived Experiences of Dalits and Adivasis

Religions, 2023
This article explores intersectionality of identities within Dalit and Adivasi traditions through a review of contemporary research on practices of witchcraft.
Jolanda Brunnekreef
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Delik Santet Dalam Konstruksi Rancangan Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana

Al-Adalah, 2020
This study discusses witchcraft (santet) as one of the controversial offenses in the Criminal Code Bill. Socially, witchcraft (santet) is believed to be an act that can harm people, narrate, or even kill people.
Satriadi satriadi
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