Witchcraft Witches And Violence In Ghana
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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.
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.
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.
Witch Hunt And Conspiracy
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Author : Nicholas Herriman
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2016-08-19
Witch Hunt And Conspiracy written by Nicholas Herriman and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-19 with History categories.
Witch-Hunt and Conspiracy brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story – that of a witch-hunt and ‘ninja’ craze that swept a region of Java, Indonesia, in 1998. When neighbours, family members and friends believed that one among them was a sorcerer, this suspicion would sometimes culminate in the death of the suspect. In 1998, these sporadic killings turned into an outbreak of violence. Muslim organisations attributed the escalation of these killings to political conspirators, alleging that squads of ‘ninjas’ were responsible. A paramilitary group (Banser NU) began preparing and training for an onslaught of further violence, while anxious residents throughout East Java established road-side guards. Dozens of suspected ninjas were caught and some were tortured and killed. Using first-hand accounts, Herriman provides these events with a detailed context and history and analyses their development in terms of the interplay of national institutions and local culture and dynamics. This book represents the culmination of his researching of witch-hunts for more than a decade.
Perspectives On African Witchcraft
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Author : Mariano Pavanello
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Perspectives On African Witchcraft written by Mariano Pavanello and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Social Science categories.
Ethiopian and Eritrean Pentecostalism and the Habesha church in Rome -- Breaking with the past, healing history -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 "I went out into the street ... and now I am fighting for my life.": Street children, witchcraft accusations, and the collapse of the household in Bangui (Central African Republic) -- A history of oppression and dispossession -- The streets of Bangui -- Witchcraft violence:Children, adults and religious leaders in the streets of Bangui -- Etiological crisis and the collapse of the household -- Conclusion: The dialectic of enclosure and freedom -- References -- 8 Fields of experience: In between healing and harming. On conversation between Dogon healers and sorcerers -- Healing powers, sacrifice and sorcery on the Dogon plateau -- Archives of disorder, secret and rebellion -- To accuse, to heal, to envision -- Epistemological debris and 'hierarchies of credibility'. Conclusions -- References -- Index
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.
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.
Encounters With Witchcraft
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Author : Norman N. Miller
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-04-26
Encounters With Witchcraft written by Norman N. Miller and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-26 with Social Science categories.
Encounters with Witchcraft is a personal story of a young man's fascination with African witchcraft discovered first in a trek across East Africa and the Congo. The story unfolds over four decades during the author's long residence in and many trips to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. As a field researcher he learns from villagers what it is like to live with witches, and how witches are seen through African eyes. His teachers are healers, cult leaders, witch-hunters and self-proclaimed "witches" as well as policemen, politicians and judges. A key figure is Mohammadi Lupanda, a frail village woman whose only child has died years before. In her dreams, however, she believes the little girl is not dead, but only lost in the fields. Mohammadi is discovered wandering at night, wailing and calling out for the child. Her neighbors are terror-stricken and she is quickly brought to a village trial and banished as a witch. The author is able to watch and listen to the proceedings and later investigate the deeper story. He discovers mysteries about Mohammadi that are only solved when he returns to the village three decades later. Today, witch-hunting and witchcraft-related crimes are found in more than seventy developing countries. Epidemics of violence against alleged witches, mainly women, but including elders of both genders, and even children is on the increase in some parts of the world. Witchcraft beliefs may lie behind vigilante murders, political assassinations, revenge killings and commercial murders for human body parts. Through African voices the author addresses key questions. Do witchcraft powers exist? Why does witchcraft persist? What are its historic roots? Why is witchcraft-based violence so often found within families? Does witchcraft serve as a hidden legal and political system, a mafia-like under-government? The author holds up a mirror for us to think about religious beliefs in our own experience that rely heavily on myth and superstition.
Religion Law And Security In Africa
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Author : M Christian Green
language : en
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Release Date : 2018-05-16
Religion Law And Security In Africa written by M Christian Green and has been published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-16 with Law categories.
Security is a key topic of our time. But how do we understand it? Do law and religion take different views of it? In this fifth volume in the Law and Religion in Africa series, radicalisation, terrorism, blasphemy, hate speech, religious freedom and just war theories rub shoulders with issues of witchcraft, female genital mutilation circumcision, child marriage, displaced communities and additional issues besides. This unique collection of topics is both challenging and inspiring, providing illumination in troubled times, and forming a sound foundation for future scholarship.
Violent Becomings
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Author : Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-08-01
Violent Becomings written by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so, this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved violent articulations with so-called ‘traditional’ forms of sociality. The scope and dynamic nature of such violent becomings is explored through an array of contexts that include colonial regimes of forced labor and pacification, liberation war struggles and civil war, the social engineering of the post-independence state, and the popular appropriation of sovereign violence in riots and lynchings.
