Witchcraft that comes with the Bible

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Witchcraft that comes with the Bible
 
Creator Senokoane, Boitumelo B.
 
Subject — witchcraft; institutionalisation; Bible; corruption; colonisation.
Description The article aims to engage with the reception of biblical discourse in Africa and will show how the Bible was transmitted in Africa. It will show how the Bible was successfully used as a spell to control the unsuspecting or a bewitched African believer. The article will try to argue that the Bible has been treated as a ‘holy’ book that cannot be questioned, translating into insanity, irrationality and magical-ity. To achieve successful witchcraft, institutionalisation became critical to identify those who did not belong or were classified as ‘heathens’. The article shall use the logic of Gabriel Setiloane to argue that Africans still believe in the Bible and Christianity because they are simply bewitched.Contribution: This article showed the suspense of rationality, and found answers in that suspense. The Bible was treated as a tool that was used for witchcraft.
 
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Date 2022-12-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v78i1.7869
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 78, No 1 (2022); 7 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2022 Boitumelo B. Senokoane https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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