What Obeah Does Do: : Healing, Harm, and the Limits of Religion
Obeah, which colonial ordinances defined capaciously as any assumption of supernatural power, was a crime in Trinidad until 2000, and the law continues to make Obeah a punishable offense in most of the anglophone Caribbean. Scholars have noted that contemporary attitudes toward Obeaha hard-to-def...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2015]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-176 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Trinidad
/ Obeah
/ Prestige
/ Usage
/ Judiciary
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AZ New religious movements KBR Latin America RA Practical theology XA Law |
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