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Language and Witchcraft as a Trade: Insights from, Machakos County, Kenya
Revista Internacional de Organizaciones, 2019 Witchcraft is defined as the use of magical powers for healing, seeing into the future, causing harm or for religion. The belief in the powers of witchcraft is widespread in Africa.
Gatitu Kiguru +3 more
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
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Pediatric Dermatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although topical corticosteroids are known triggers in the development of perioral dermatitis (PD), investigation into inhalant and nasal corticosteroid preparations, commonly used to manage allergic rhinitis and asthma, remains limited to case series.
Taylor Merkle +4 more
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Economic Origins of Witch Hunting
Studies in Business and Economics, 2018 A number of events taking place in the twenty-first century such as mass arrests of members of the Iran President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad's executive office accused of witchcraft make one doubt that witch hunt trials remained in the far Middle Ages.
Shmakov Aleksandr, Petrov Sergey
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A Second‐Order Moral Twin‐Earth
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How to understand metaphysical disputes is a disputed matter. Within this broader dispute, deflationist approaches read some of the traditional metaphysical debates as having metalinguistic negotiations at their roots. That is, some metaphysical disagreements are read as speakers commending each other to use some concepts over others ...
Pyro Suarez
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Violence against Children Accused of Witchcraft in Nigeria and its Impact on Their Wellbeing :
African Theological Journal for Church and SocietyWitchcraft accusations have been on the rise across various regions of Nigeria. Unfortunately, those often accused are not just the adults, but also children.
Felicia Priest, Victor Chukwuma
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Atalaya, 2016 This article offers a first approach to Classical literature as one of the strata underlying the development of European witchcraft. This is done from the point of view of how references made to these women in some treaties from the 15th to 17th ...
Eva Lara Alberola
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Transfusion Medicine, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Objective Adequate blood supply remains a challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Malawi has a 13% shortfall in required blood supplies. Innovative recruitment and retention strategies are crucial to ensuring a sufficient number of donors and blood supply.
Princess Kaira +8 more
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