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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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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 +5 more
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“Back to Sender”: Re-Visiting the Belief in Witchcraft in Post-Colonial Zimbabwean Pentecostalism
Religions, 2022 This paper is a critical analysis of the witchcraft beliefs in Pentecostalism in post-colonial Zimbabwe. While Pentecostals claim “a complete break from the past”, there have emerged new dimensions that show that the belief in witches and witchcraft is ...
Kudzai Biri, Molly Manyonganise
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Beliefs in the Activities of Witchcraft in Ghana [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2020 This study discusses how beliefs in the activities of witchcraft have been ingrained in the Ghanaian terrain and its adverse impact on Ghanaians. The methodology used in this qualitative study is the interpretive paradigm.
Kwasi Atta Agyapong
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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 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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Organization Studies, 2021 This paper theorizes the spiritual processes of community entrepreneuring as navigating tensions that arise when community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge within communities and generate socio-economic inequality.
C. Cucchi +3 more
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Witchcraft Beliefs, Social Relations, and Development
Social Science Research Network, 2021 Beliefs in witchcraft, or the ability of certain people to intentionally cause harm via supernatural means, have been documented across societies all over the world.
B. Gershman
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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 +1 more
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