DOI
10.32436/2475-6423.1024
Abstract
When Christians in Zambia struggle with witchcraft, they also struggle with African cultural and religious concepts that deal with life’s ambiguities and that require discernment. It is not by working against the cultural and religious heritage, but by working with it, as far as possible, that the pastor can identify the broken relationships towards which many witchcraft discourses point. However, before we place the concepts of witchcraft into the realm of superstition (as are the trends of mission Christianity) or the demonic (as are the trends of charismatic Christianity), the Church has the duty to look at the concepts, stay with them, reflect, and try to understand their meaning in view of the mysteries of life.
Recommended Citation
Udelhoven, Bernhard
(2017)
"Seeing Witchcraft,"
Journal of Global Catholicism:
Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 7. p.120-142.
DOI: 10.32436/2475-6423.1024
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/jgc/vol2/iss1/7
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