From Liverpool to Freetown: West African witchcraft, conspiracy and the occult
In this ethnography I examine the key features of occult discourses among middle-class Sierra Leoneans living in Britain, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Merseyside and Cheshire between 2001-2002. It is evident that the subjects of this study are quick to engage with the conspiracy-theo...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2005
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Culture and religion
Year: 2005, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 353-368 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Africans
/ Sierra Leone
/ Witchcraft
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AZ New religious movements BB Indigenous religions |
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