Witchcraft As a Social Diagnosis - Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health

Informationen zum Autor Roxane Richter is president of World Missions Possible. Thomas Flowers is medical director of World Missions Possible. Elias Kifon Bongmba is the Harry and Hazel Chair in Christian Theology and professor of religion at Rice University. Klappentext This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches’ village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. Zusammenfassung This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches’ village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. History, Tradition, and Religion 2. Gnani - Banished to the Witches' Village 3. Medical Concepts of Disease and Illness 4. Gnani - Etiology of Diseases and Disorders 5. Pathologies of Prejudice in Social Mechanisms 6. Facing Forward

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• Authors: Elias Bongmba, Bongmba Elias, Elias Bongmba, Rice University Elias Bongmba, Thomas Flowers, Flowers Thomas, Richter, Roxane Richter, Roxane Flowers Richter, Richter Roxane
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2017
• EAN: 9781498523189
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2318-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ghana, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, RELIGION / Wicca, MEDICAL / History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, History of Medicine, Human rights, civil rights, Occult Studies