Witchcraft In Ghana
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The Practice Of Witchcraft In Ghana
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Author : Gabriel Bannerman-Richter
language : en
Publisher: Gabari Publishing Company
Release Date : 1982
The Practice Of Witchcraft In Ghana written by Gabriel Bannerman-Richter and has been published by Gabari Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Witchcraft Witches And Violence In Ghana
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Author : Mensah Adinkrah
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Witchcraft Witches And Violence In Ghana written by Mensah Adinkrah and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. Purported witches are blamed for all manner of adversities including inexplicable illnesses and untimely deaths. As in other historical periods and other societies, in contemporary Ghana, alleged witches are typically female, elderly, poor, and marginalized. Childhood socialization in homes and schools, exposure to mass media, and other institutional mechanisms ensure that witchcraft beliefs are transmitted across generations and entrenched over time. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on alleged witches by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups.
Witchcraft As A Social Diagnosis
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Author : Roxane Richter
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-02-27
Witchcraft As A Social Diagnosis written by Roxane Richter and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-27 with Political Science categories.
This interdisciplinary manuscript examines one nonprofit’s five years of medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on the clashes between traditional Ghanaian beliefs, African religious tenets, and contemporary Western medical science. The research draws upon 1,714 patient interventions and 95 personal interviews, exposing the inherent challenges of separating indigenous beliefs surrounding fate and witchcraft convictions from contemporary interpretations of biological pathogens, structural and gender-based violence, and evidence-based medicine. This book offers a novel perspective on witchcraft as it examines questions of stigmatization in order to extrapolate how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. These unprecedented insights will serve to uncover and explore rural Ghanaian challenges in gender-based violence, religion, legal and political tenets, human rights, and medical science and their many implications for those in search of health parity, social justice, gender equity, and human rights.
Pentecostal Exorcism
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Author : Opoku Onyinah
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-05-21
Pentecostal Exorcism written by Opoku Onyinah and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with Religion categories.
"Witchcraft" and exorcism have long been dominant features of life in African cultures. This unique book provides a thorough, field research-based description and analysis of a specifically Pentecostal Christian response to these phenomena within the Akan culture of Ghana. Anthropological studies generally claim that the ultimate goal of exorcism is modernisation. Using interdisciplinary studies with a theological focus, the author takes a different view, arguing that it is divinatory consultation or an inquiry into the sacred and the search for meaning that underlies the current "deliverance" ministry, where the focus is to identify and break down the so-called demonic forces by the power of God and to "deliver" people from their torment. The deliverance ministry is one attempt to contextualise the gospel for African people. However, preoccupation with demonisation and exorcistic practices is found to bring Christianity into tension with the Akan culture, family ties and other religions. In order to develop a properly safeguarded ministry of exorcism in an African context, the author examines contextualisation and suggests the integration into African Christianity of divinatory consultation, which has strong resonances with the biblical concept of prayer.
Spellbound
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Author : Karen Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-10-26
Spellbound written by Karen Palmer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-26 with Social Science categories.
As I attempted to digest stories of spiritual cannibalism, of curses that could cost a student her eyesight or ignite the pages of the books she read, I knew I was not alone in my skepticism. And yet, when I caught sight of the waving arms of an industrious scarecrow, the hair on the back of my neck would stand on end. It was most palpable at night, this creepy feeling, when the moon stayed low to the horizon and the dust kicked up in the breeze, reaching out and pulling back with ghostly fingers. There was something to this place that could be felt but not seen. With these words, Karen Palmer takes us inside one of West Africa’s witch camps, where hundreds of banished women struggle to survive under the watchful eye of a powerful wizard. Palmer arrived at the Gambaga witch camp with an outsider’s sense of outrage, believing it was little more than a dumping ground for difficult women. Soon, however, she encountered stories she could not explain: a woman who confessed she’d attacked a girl given to her as a sacrifice; another one desperately trying to rid herself of the witchcraft she believed helped her kill dozens of people. In Spellbound, Palmer brilliantly recounts the kaleidoscope of experiences that greeted her in the remote witch camps of northern Ghana, where more than 3,000 exiled women and men live in extreme poverty, many sentenced in a ceremony hinging on the death throes of a sacrificed chicken. As she ventured deeper into Ghana’s grasslands, Palmer found herself swinging between belief and disbelief. She was shown books that caught on fire for no reason and met diviners who accurately predicted the future. From the schoolteacher who believed Africa should use the power of its witches to gain wealth and prestige to the social worker who championed the rights of accused witches but also took his wife to a witch doctor, Palmer takes readers deep inside a shadowy layer of rural African society. As the sheen of the exotic wore off, Palmer saw the camp for what it was: a hidden colony of women forced to rely on food scraps from the weekly market. She witnessed the way witchcraft preyed on people’s fears and resentments. Witchcraft could be a comfort in times of distress, a way of explaining a crippling drought or the inexplicable loss of a child. It was a means of predicting the unpredictable and controlling the uncontrollable. But witchcraft was also a tool for social control. In this vivid, startling work of first-person reportage, Palmer sheds light on the plight of women in a rarely seen corner of the world.
Witch Camps And Witchcraft Discourse In Africa
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Author : Matthew Gmalifo Mabefam
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-09-18
Witch Camps And Witchcraft Discourse In Africa written by Matthew Gmalifo Mabefam and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-18 with Political Science categories.
This book explores how local development interventions related to witchcraft in Africa intersect and conflict with globally accepted development practices. It argues for expansion and diversification of development practices and problematizes international development practices that can jeopardize the well-being of the people it seeks to support.
Perspectives On African Witchcraft
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Author : Mariano Pavanello
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Perspectives On African Witchcraft written by Mariano Pavanello and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Social Science categories.
This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, the interrelations with religion and medicine, and the theoretical frameworks employed to explain the nature of modern African witchcraft representations.
Ambivalence Of Culture In Ghana S Alleged Witches Camps
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Author : Baba Iddrisu Musah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Ambivalence Of Culture In Ghana S Alleged Witches Camps written by Baba Iddrisu Musah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Camps categories.
Imagining Evil
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Author : Gerrie ter Haar
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 2007
Imagining Evil written by Gerrie ter Haar and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Witch hunting categories.
The Legal History Of Witchcraft In Colonial Ghana
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Author : Natasha Adriene Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Legal History Of Witchcraft In Colonial Ghana written by Natasha Adriene Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Akyem Abuakwa State (Ghana) categories.
