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Contemporary trends of witchcraft accusations and resulting violence against children: A scoping review and bibliometric analysis protocol. [PDF]
PLoS ONEObjectiveThis review seeks to understand the global trends of contemporary witchcraft accusations and related harms against children and adolescents (0-18 years of age).IntroductionWitchcraft-related violence against children and adolescents (children ...
Cara Spence +11 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 ...
Molly Manyonganise
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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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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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American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, 2021 The survey focuses on identifying dementia awareness challenges among Ghanaian school students. Data were generated in a cross-sectional survey (n = 1137).
Susanne Spittel MSc +2 more
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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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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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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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Males, masculine honor and witch hunting in seventeenth-century Germany [PDF]
, 2004 This article aims to contribute to the emerging cultural study of early modern witchcraft by examining one particular prosecution from the Bishopric of Bamberg—a territory in Germany that experienced very intensive witch persecutions between 1625 and ...
Walinski-Kiehl, R.
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