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Witchcraft and the Modern Roman Catholic Church
, 2022Witchcraft is rarely mentioned in official documents of the contemporary Roman Catholic church, but ideas about the dangers of witchcraft and other forms of occultism underpin the recent revival of interest in exorcism in the church.
F. Young
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Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2021
For years, self-identified witches have demanded the public acknowledgement of witchcraft as “religion” in Nigeria. These political debates are reflected in a long-ongoing scholarly discussion about whether “witchcraft” in Africa should be regarded as ...
Judith C. Bachmann
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For years, self-identified witches have demanded the public acknowledgement of witchcraft as “religion” in Nigeria. These political debates are reflected in a long-ongoing scholarly discussion about whether “witchcraft” in Africa should be regarded as ...
Judith C. Bachmann
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Witchcraft and HCI: Morality, Modernity, and Postcolonial Computing in Rural Bangladesh
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019While Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research on health and well-being is increasingly becoming more aware and inclusive of its social and political dimensions, spiritual practices are still largely overlooked there. For a large number of people around
S. Sultana, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
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HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2020
What are the current trends in the study of witchcraft in Africa? Twenty years ago, the “modernity of witchcraft” approach was very influential. Although key texts from that framework are still often cited, its heyday seems to have passed.
Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
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What are the current trends in the study of witchcraft in Africa? Twenty years ago, the “modernity of witchcraft” approach was very influential. Although key texts from that framework are still often cited, its heyday seems to have passed.
Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
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Witchcraft Beliefs as a Cultural Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Evidence from Two Continents
European Economic Review, 2019This paper argues that the historical slave trade contributed to the propagation of persistent witchcraft beliefs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and establishes two key empirical patterns.
B. Gershman
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Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736–1951
Introduction 1. Educated attitudes towards the popular belief in witchcraft and magic 2. Popular justice and witchcraft 3. The witch 4. Cunning-folk, astrologers, and fortune-tellers 5. Magic and medicine 6.
O. Davies
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, 2019
Introduction 1. Mediaeval Origins 1.1. Witch Trials in Mediaeval Europe, Richard Kieckhefer 1.2. The Demonization of Mediaeval Heretics, Norman Cohn 2. Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 2.1. The Experience of Bewitchment, Robin Briggs 2.2.
D. Oldridge
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Introduction 1. Mediaeval Origins 1.1. Witch Trials in Mediaeval Europe, Richard Kieckhefer 1.2. The Demonization of Mediaeval Heretics, Norman Cohn 2. Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 2.1. The Experience of Bewitchment, Robin Briggs 2.2.
D. Oldridge
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Adjudicating Fear of Witchcraft Claims in Refugee Law
Journal of law and society (Print), 2018This research examines claims of witchcraft related violence (WRV) in asylum decisions. In refugee applications involving WRV those accused of witchcraft are largely women, and those fearing witchcraft are more often men.
J. Millbank, A. Vogl
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Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals
, 2020T. Abusch +3 more
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
, 2019R. Hutton
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