Stifling the Imagination:

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" Stifling the Imagination: "
David T. Ngong

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063423
Doc. No	:	LA107052
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156921012X629367‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	David T. Ngong
Title & Author	:	Stifling the Imagination: [Article] : A Critique of Anthropological and Religious Normalization of Witchcraft in Africa\ David T. Ngong
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African and Asian Studies
Date	:	2012
Volume/ Issue Number	:	11/1-2
Page No	:	144–181
Abstract	:	Recent anthropological and religious, especially Christian, discourses on African witchcraft normalize the witchcraft imagination on the continent by failing to show how damaging the imagination has been to Africa’s move toward modernization. While anthropologists normalize it by studying the phenomenon ahistorically and by rationalizing and reinterpreting it, scholars and preachers of African Christianity see it as the context necessary for the growth of Christianity on the continent. However, this normalization of the witchcraft imagination stifles the African imagination because it does not encourage Africans to think in scientific ways that may be more helpful in the transformation of the continent in our modern world. This article is an attempt to liberate the African imagination by critiquing the witchcraft imagination from a rational and theological perspective. It also proposes policies that need to be taken in order to overcome this ruinous imagination and facilitate Africa’s dignified participation in the modern world.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	anthropology
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	imagination
Descriptor	:	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	modernity
Descriptor	:	rationality
Descriptor	:	religion/religious studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	witchcraft
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156921012X629367‬