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Research Articles (Biblical and Religious Studies): Recent submissions

  • “Back to sender” : re-visiting the belief in witchcraft in post-colonial Zimbabwean Pentecostalism 
    Biri, Kudzai; Manyonganise, Molly (MDPI, 2022-01-05)
    This paper is a critical analysis of the witchcraft beliefs in Pentecostalism in post-colonial Zimbabwe. While Pentecostals claim “a complete break from the past”, there have emerged new dimensions that show that the ...
  • Religious aberration in Nigerian contemporary society : a critique 
    Onuorah, Chioma P. (AOSIS, 2022-04-29)
    Religion has been a part of sociopolitical movements from the dawn of history. With a strong emphasis on morality, religion and religious people were expected to live an exemplary life in society. Thus, religion is a ...
  • A critical analysis of the impact of religion on the Nigerian struggle for nationhood 
    Ezeanya, Oguejiofo C.P.; Ajah, Benjamin O.; Ibenwa, Christopher N.; Onuorah, Chioma P.; Eze, Ugomma A. (AOSIS, 2022-06-13)
    Religion plays a vital role in the formation of conscience and therefore is very important in determining how people co-exist in a society. Nigerian citizens live in regions other than their ethnic geographical areas, but ...
  • Witchcraft after modernity: old and new directions in the study of witchcraft in Africa 
    Kroesbergen-Kamps, Johanneke (HAU Society for Ethnographic Theory, 2020-12)
    What are the current trends in the study of witchcraft in Africa? Twenty years ago, the “modernity of witchcraft” approach was very influential. Although key texts from that framework are still often cited, its heyday ...
  • Living wisely in a modern world 
    Steyn, Lynette (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2011)
    People all over the world today have to compete for their daily bread and struggle to make ends meet. This represents the arena where humans battle to cope with the complexities of daily life. At the same time they try to ...