Explaining Abuse of "Child Witches" in Africa: Powerful Witchbusters in Weak States
Thousands of African children have been accused of witchcraft, physically abused, and thrown out of their homes or killed over the last twenty years. Analyzing this phenomenon with the same model used to explain the pre-modern European witch hunts allows us to avoid contributing to the heart-of-dark...
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Creighton University
2017
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2017, Volume: 19 |
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Witchcraft
B Child witches B Witch hunts B Weak states B Nigeria B Child Abuse |
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