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AAR Review of Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa, by editors Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, and Marie Rodet

In Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa, the editors provide a timely intervention for media studies in the study of religion.
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Reading Scriptures: Gender and Class in the “A Witch for Jesus’ Saga

The unpalatability of evil finds expression through ritual establishment of a scapegoat.

Craft “Witch”: Interconnective Scripturalizations and Identity Economies

This paper uses frameworks from ethnographies of interconnection” to engage recent development theories as found in Kingsley C. Moghalu’s ‘Last Frontier in relation to interconnective constructions of “witch” in identity scripturalizations.…