Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Review Of The Law On Sorcery And Sorcery Related Killings full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Review Of The Law On Sorcery And Sorcery Related Killings ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Review of the Law on Sorcery and Sorcery Related Killings written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miranda Forsyth
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1925021572
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Talking it Through written by Miranda Forsyth and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs are pervasive across Melanesia. They are in part created by, and give rise to, a wide variety of poor social and developmental outcomes. These include uneven economic development, low public health, lack of social cohesion, crime, fear and insecurity. A further very visible problem is the attacks on men and women who are accused of being practitioners of witchcraft or sorcery, which can lead to serious bodily harm, banishment and sometimes death. Today, many communities, individuals, church organisations and policymakers in Melanesia and internationally are exploring ways to overcome the negative social outcomes associated with witchcraft and sorcery practices and beliefs. This book brings together a collection of chapters written by a diverse range of authors, both Melanesian and non-Melanesian, providing crucial insights both into how these practices and beliefs are playing out in contemporary Melanesia, and also the types of interventions that are being trialled or debated to address the problems associated with them.
Author : Samantha Spence
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527502686
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft Accusations and Persecutions as a Mechanism for the Marginalisation of Women written by Samantha Spence and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books draws on feminist commentary from the disciplines of anthropology, history, law, politics and sociology in order to deal with the phenomenon of modern-day witchcraft. It focuses on the re-emergence of witchcraft beliefs in contemporary society, suggesting that witchcraft accusations and persecution are being used as a marginalisation mechanism of women. The re-emergence of witchcraft beliefs in contemporary society and the prevalence of the violence associated with such beliefs has received little attention within academic literature, yet witchcraft-related violence against women is, progressively, becoming one of the most pervasive forms of violence facing women today. This book addresses this gap in the literature, discussing the return of witchcraft beliefs to contemporary society, whilst assessing the effectiveness of international human rights law in protecting women from witchcraft accusations and persecution.
Author : Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 1849291748
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Changing the Law written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing the Law: A Practical Guide to Law Reform is designed to provide practical assistance to users seeking to deliver high standard law reform outcomes. Using examples and experience from around the Commonwealth and beyond, it guides users through each phase of a successful reform, from initiation to final implementation.
Author : KGOPOLO NTSEANE
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (941 download)
Download or read book JUDGE DINGAKE- SELECTED SPEECHES AND WRITINGS written by KGOPOLO NTSEANE and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the speeches and writings of one of Botswana’s foremost legal minds on a wide array of topics. The topics cover issues of human rights, constitutionalism and the rule of law. Justice Dingake’s writings reflect a mind of a jurist that believes in the power of law to change lives for the better. However, the speeches and writings also teach that the power of law as a tool of change, although useful, should never be exaggerated. In his writings Justice Dingake teaches that the rights of vulnerable and marginalized groups require heightened attention and protection by the courts. This book is likely to prove particularly useful to the legal fraternity and civil society groups that often approach the courts to vindicate human rights.
Author : United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Responses to the List of Issues and Questions with Regard to the Consideration of the Combined Initial, Second and Third Periodic Reports written by United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Jolly
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921862866
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea written by Margaret Jolly and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to ‘domestic violence’ or ‘violence against women’ in analysing the dynamic processes of ‘engendering’ violence in PNG. ‘Engendering’ refers not just to the sex of individual actors, but to gender as a crucial relation in collective life and the massive social transformations ongoing in PNG: conversion to Christianity, the development of extractive industries, the implanting of introduced models of justice and the law and the spread of HIV. Hence the collection examines issues of ‘troubled masculinities’ as much as ‘battered women’ and tries to move beyond the black and white binaries of blaming either tradition or modernity as the primary cause of gender violence. It relates original scholarly research in the villages and towns of PNG to questions of policy and practice and reveals the complexities and contestations in the local translation of concepts of human rights. It will interest undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies and Pacific studies and those working on the policy and practice of combating gender violence in PNG and elsewhere.
Author : James T. Siegel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751957
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Naming the Witch written by James T. Siegel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell. After many years of ethnographic work focusing on the origins and nature of violence in Indonesia, Siegel came to the conclusion that previous anthropological explanations of witchcraft and magic, mostly based on sociological conceptions but also including the work of E.E. Evans-Pritchard and Claude Lévi-Strauss, were simply inadequate to the task of providing a full understanding of the phenomena associated with sorcery, and particularly with the ideas of power connected with it. Previous explanations have tended to see witchcraft in simple opposition to modernism and modernity (enchantment vs. disenchantment). The author sees witchcraft as an effect of culture, when the latter is incapable of dealing with accident, death, and the fear of the disintegration of social and political relations. He shows how and why modernization and witchcraft can often be companions, as people strive to name what has hitherto been unnameable.
Author : John Callow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350196142
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Last Witches of England written by John Callow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An important work." All About History "Well-researched." The Tablet On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches. Though 'pretty much worn away' the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined – was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common. In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.
Author : South African Law Reform Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780621442083
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Review of the Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957 written by South African Law Reform Commission and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Chappell
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482218577
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Policing and the Mentally Ill written by Duncan Chappell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In countries with democratic traditions, police interactions with the mentally ill are usually guided by legislative mandates giving police discretion and possibly resulting in referrals for assistance and treatment. But all too frequently, the outcome of these interactions is far less therapeutic and leads to a cycle of arrests and ultimately incarceration. Stemming from an initiative in Memphis, Tennessee two decades ago, police departments in many parts of the world have set up specific programs with crisis intervention teams to facilitate police contact with the mentally ill. Policing and the Mentally Ill: International Perspectives examines how these types of programs have fared in jurisdictions across the world. The book begins with developments in North America and Europe—traditionally the locus of much of the innovation and change in policing and related areas. It demonstrates how a number of jurisdictions in Europe have only recently begun to recognize therapeutic intervention with the mentally ill as a priority issue, and still frequently suffer from a lack of significant resources. The largest section of the book focuses on Australia, where local law enforcement agencies have displayed a remarkable enthusiasm for and commitment to change in their management of interactions with citizens with mental illness. Finally, the book examines the particular challenges of providing humane and effective policing for persons with mental illnesses in parts of the developing world. These challenges often involve dealing with entrenched cultural beliefs and practices based on superstition, fear, and prejudice regarding persons thought to be mentally ill. Interactions between police and persons with mental illnesses comprise an important and sensitive aspect of everyday policing. The 16 chapters in this book offer a wide range of cross-cultural perspectives on this essential aspect of policing, enabling police practitioners to develop a best practices approach to managing their interactions with this vulnerable segment of the community.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199578168
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America written by Brian P. Levack and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Reis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842025775
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Spellbound written by Elizabeth Reis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America is a collection of twelve articles that revisit crucial events in the history of witchcraft and spiritual feminism in this country. Beginning with the "witches" of colonial America, Spellbound extends its focus through the nineteenth century to explore women's involvement with alternative spiritualities, and culminates with examinations of the contemporary feminist neopagan and Goddess movements. A valuable source for those interested in women's history, women's studies, and religious history, Spellbound is also a crucial addition to the bookshelf of anyone tracing the evolution of spiritualism in America.
Author : Mona Chollet
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125027222X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book In Defense of Witches written by Mona Chollet and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society’s seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct descendants to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who live their lives on their own terms.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Romanic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
