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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Stanford Anthropologist says African Pentecostal Belief is "Terrifying"

Another story about African Pentecostalism and witchcraft has been published by an American newspaper. This time the story is from Ghana and it is written by an American anthropologist who teaches at Stanford University. Her conclusion is that African Pentecostal belief in demons and witches is just as "terrifying" as believing that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ - a thought I think many Africans would reject. Whatever happened to the now famous view that anthropologists are not to insult other cultures?

Photograph from The New York Times.
 

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