Photo magic: Photographs in practices of healing and harming in East Africa
In this contribution, I present a few examples of practices in present-day African Christion Churches in which photogrpahs "do magic" and are used to heal or harm. I not only give examples of African "photo magic" but also include European ones, examples that in the "standar...
| Published in: | Journal of religion in Africa |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2003
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Journal of religion in Africa
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| Further subjects: | B
Photography
B Church B Religious practice B Mysticism B Africa B Religion B Cult |
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| Summary: | In this contribution, I present a few examples of practices in present-day African Christion Churches in which photogrpahs "do magic" and are used to heal or harm. I not only give examples of African "photo magic" but also include European ones, examples that in the "standard" or "official" histories of Western photography are missing. In addition, I try to work out the interdependence and the mutual mirroring of Western and African practices and discourses, i.e., aspects of their interculturality, against the background of the Christian Eucharist and cult of relics. (...) Thus, I attempt to interpret Ugandan and Kenyan photo magic in Christian churches as variations of the Eucharist. (J Rel Afr/DÜI) |
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| ISSN: | 0022-4200 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of religion in Africa
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