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Priests, Witches and Power

Author : Maia Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139435205
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Priests, Witches and Power written by Maia Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthodoxy, and local populations and indigenous clergy. Paradoxically, while local practices around the constitution of kinship and personhood remain defiantly free of Christian elements, they inform a popular Christianity experienced as a system of substances and practices. This book offers a challenge to idealist and interpretative accounts of African participation in twentieth-century religious forms, and argues for a politically grounded analysis of historical processes. It will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies; particularly those interested in religion and kinship.

Priests, Witches and Power

Author : Maia Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521621892
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Priests, Witches and Power written by Maia Green and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses in a historical context how Christianity has been adopted in Southern Tanzania.

Power of the Witch

Author : Laurie Cabot
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0804152217
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Power of the Witch written by Laurie Cabot and published by Delta. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earth, the moon, and the magical path to enlightenment. Written by a practicing witch who conducts classes and seminars on witchcraft—the oldest Western religion, a means of power and enlightenment, and a healing art. “Laurie Cabot has written a fascinating account of a beautiful and sadly misunderstood religion, witchcraft. She has with her life and work done a great deal to legitimize this ancient pagan form of worship. I am among the ecumenical Christians who have discovered the truth about witchcraft, that it is neither demonic nor evil. Power of the Witch is a marvelous introduction to the magical and highly ethical world of wicca.”—Whitley Strieber

Priests, Witches and Power

Author : Maia Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511325977
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Priests, Witches and Power written by Maia Green and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania, and discusses how Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania in the historical context of colonial mission. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies.

Priests, Witches and Power

Author : Maia Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511178733
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Priests, Witches and Power written by Maia Green and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

Author : Knut Rio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319560689
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Pentecostalism and Witchcraft written by Knut Rio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.

Craft of the Wise

Author : Vikki Bramshaw
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846942322
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Craft of the Wise written by Vikki Bramshaw and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together both practical experience and innovative research, 'Craft of the Wise' communicates a balance of accepted Craft methods together with a wealth of information relating to the origins, beliefs and tools of this ancient Craft.

Waking the Witch

Author : Pam Grossman
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 1982145854
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Waking the Witch written by Pam Grossman and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the podcast host of The Witch Wave and practicing witch Pam Grossman—who Vulture has dubbed the “Terry Gross of witches”—comes an exploration of the world’s fascination with witches, why they have intrigued us for centuries and why they’re more relevant now than ever. When you think of a witch, what do you picture? Pointy black hat, maybe a broomstick. But witches in various guises have been with us for millennia. In Waking the Witch, Pam Grossman explores the impact of the world’s most magical icon. From the idea of the femme fatale in league with the devil to the bewitching pop culture archetypes in Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Harry Potter; from the spooky ladies in fairy tales to the rise of contemporary witchcraft, witches reflect the power and potential of women. Part cultural analysis, part memoir, Waking the Witch traces the author’s own journey on the path to witchcraft, and how this has helped her find self-empowerment and purpose. It celebrates witches past, present, and future, and reveals the critical role they have played—and will continue to play—in the world as we know it. “Deftly illuminating the past while beckoning us towards the future, Waking the Witch has all the makings of a feminist classic. Wise, relatable, and real, Pam Grossman is the witch we need for our times” (Ami McKay, author of The Witches of New York).

Encounters with Witchcraft

Author : Norman N. Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438443579
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Witchcraft written by Norman N. Miller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned authority on East Africa examines the effects of witchcraft beliefs on African culture, politics, and family life.

The Witch and the Priest

Author : Hilda Lewis
Publisher : Hutchinson
ISBN 13 : 9780091118501
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Witch and the Priest written by Hilda Lewis and published by Hutchinson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Impact of Electricity

Author : Tanja Winther
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857450630
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Electricity written by Tanja Winther and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do some groups tend to embrace this icon of development while other groups actively fight against it? This book examines the effects of electricity’s arrival in an African, rural community. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Zanzibar at different points in time, the author provides a compelling account of the social implications in question. The rhythm of life changes and life is speeding up. Sexuality and marriage patterns are affected. And a range of social relations, e.g. between generations and genders, as well as relations between human beings and spirits, become modified. Despite men and women’s general appreciation of the new services electricity provides, new dilemmas emerge. By using electricity as a guide through the social landscape, the particularities of social and cultural life in this region emerge. Simultaneously, the book invites readers to understand the ways that electricity affects and becomes implicated in our everyday life.

Styrian Witches in European Perspective

Author : Mirjam Mencej
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137372508
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Styrian Witches in European Perspective written by Mirjam Mencej and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area, is explored.

Exposing Spiritual Witchcraft

Author : Jonas Clark
Publisher : Spirit of Life Ministries
ISBN 13 : 9781886885004
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Exposing Spiritual Witchcraft written by Jonas Clark and published by Spirit of Life Ministries. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revivalist Jonas Clark discusses what he calls spiritual witchcraft, identifying its character, its weapons, its methods, and ways that Christians can combat it.

The Polish Peasant in Europe and America

Author : William Isaac Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Polish Peasant in Europe and America written by William Isaac Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Translating the Devil

Author : Birgit Meyer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474471005
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Translating the Devil written by Birgit Meyer and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an ethnography of the emergence of a local Christianity and its relation to changing social, political and economic formations among the Peki Ewe in Ghana. Focusing on the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which arose from encounters between the Ewe and German Piestist missionaries, the author examines recent conflicts leading to the secession of many pentecostally oriented members, which it places in a historical perspective. The main argument is that, for the Ewe, involvement with modernity goes hand in hand with new enchantment, rather than disenchantment, of the world. At the grassroots level, the study focuses on the image of the Devil, which the missionaries communicated to the Ewe through translation and which currently receives much attention in the Pentecostal churches. It is shown that this image played and still plays a crucial role in the local appropriation of Christianity, since diabolisation confirmed the existence of local gods and witchcraft and incorporated them into Christian belief as demons. Comparing the discourses and practices of mission and Pentecostal churches, the study reveals that the latter pay much more attention to Satan - especially through 'deliverance' rituals. Pentecostalism's increasing popularity thus stems from the fact that it ties into historically generated local understandings of Christianity, which, despite a declared dislike of non-Christian religious practices, stand much closer to Ewe religion than missionary Christianity. With its emphasis on the hybrid image of the Devil and people's obsessions with occult forces as a way to mediate the attractions and discontents of modernity, this book sheds light on a hitherto neglected dimension in studies of African Christianity.

The New Faces of Christianity

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198041160
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The New Faces of Christianity written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the world's largest Christian populations. Now, in this brilliant sequel, Jenkins takes a much closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future. The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a biblical faith. Indeed, in the global South, many Christians identify powerfully with the world portrayed in the New Testament--an agricultural world very much like their own, marked by famine and plague, poverty and exile, until very recently a society of peasants, farmers, and small craftsmen. In the global South, as in the biblical world, belief in spirits and witchcraft are commonplace, and in many places--such as Nigeria, Indonesia, and Sudan--Christians are persecuted just as early Christians were. Thus the Bible speaks to the global South with a vividness and authenticity simply unavailable to most believers in the industrialized North. More important, Jenkins shows that throughout the global South, believers are reading the Bible with fresh eyes, and coming away with new and sometimes startling interpretations. Some of their conclusions are distinctly fundamentalist, but Jenkins finds an intriguing paradox, for they are also finding ideas in the Bible that are socially liberating, especially with respect to women's rights. Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, such Christians are social activists in the forefront of a wide range of liberation movements. It's hard to overstate how interesting, how eye-opening, how frequently surprising (and sometimes disturbing) Jenkins' findings are. Anyone interested in the implications of these trends for the major denominations, for Muslim-Christian conflict, and for global politics will find The New Faces of Christianity provocative and incisive--and indispensable.

Episodes in the Rhetoric of Government-Indian Relations

Author : Janice Schuetz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313012423
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Episodes in the Rhetoric of Government-Indian Relations written by Janice Schuetz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly considerations of the relationship between the United States government and Native Americans have largely ignored the rhetoric utilized by both in the course of their ongoing conflicts. This fascinating new study concentrates on the persuasive and public strategies of both government and Indian leaders, focusing on the written and oral records of several key episodes in American history. This approach, which author Janice Schuetz calls rhetorical ancestry reveals the ways in which government and Indian spokespersons have constituted and defined issues; created, prolonged, and managed conflict; and silenced and empowered each other's voices. Chronicling the emergence of government and Indian leaders who were forced to deal with conflicts in new ways, each chapter makes use of historical evidence to draw inferences about the rhetorical features of the discourse and its effects. Both verbal and nonverbal rhetoric—including treaties, letters, oral histories, speeches, ritual performances, media reports, biographical narratives, protests and demonstrations, political hearings, and legal proceedings—are represented here, illuminating a legacy that evolved in the personal and political language of its participants.