BACKGROUND Cases of premature death in Africa may be attributed to witchcraft. In such settings, medical registration of causes of death is rare. To fill this gap, verbal autopsy (VA) methods record signs and symptoms of the deceased before death as well as lay opinion regarding the cause of death; this information is then interpreted to derive a medical cause of death. In the Agincourt Health ...

The socio-religious panorama of the African religion deserves a close observation its foundation and function. perception spirit world is dominant in Africa. Similarly, spiritual warfare context prevalent mind worldview an African. Spiritual derives framework from Traditional Religion (ATR). Hence, understanding ATR’s complexity helps us with warfare. Some essential questions to understand woul...

This study examines the impact of witchcraft beliefs within African Brotherhood Church (ABC) in Machakos County, Kenya, on church's growth. The research aims to fill knowledge gap regarding effects indigenous churches. Using a mixed-methods approach, explores areas church growth influenced by belief witchcraft. A sample 395 respondents was selected from seven sub-headquarters ABC using stratifi...

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Twenty years after his death, the reflections of Luciano Parinetto (1934-2001), who was associate professor Moral Philosophy at University Milan, remain, on one hand, relationship between witchcraft and diversity, other value utopian hope. Despite fact that course history has preferred path integration to revolution, dialectics remains picklock criticize alienated social situations.