Description: Witchcraft, Violence And Democracy In South Africa, Paperback by Ashforth, Adam, ISBN 0226029743, ISBN-13 9780226029740, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US How does democracy fare when the people governed insist they live in a world with witches? If the government of a people afflicted by witchcraft refuses to punish witches, how does it avoid becoming alienated from the perceived needs of its people or, worse, seen as being in league with witches? In Soweto, South Africa, the constant threat of violent crime, the increase in black socio-economic inequality, the AIDS pandemic, and a widespread fear of witchcraft have converged to create a pervasive sense of insecurity among citizens and a unique public policy problem for government. In Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, Adam Ashforth examines how people in Soweto and other parts of post-apartheid South Africa manage their fear of 'evil forces' such as witchcraft. Ashforth examines the dynamics of insecurity in the everyday life of Soweto at the turn of the twenty-first century. He develops a new framework for understanding occult violence as a form of spiritual insecurity and documents new patterns of interpretation attributing agency to evil forces. Finally, he analyzes the response of post-apartheid governments to issues of spiritual insecurity and suggests how these matters pose severe long-term challenges to the legitimacy of the democratic state.
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Book Title: Witchcraft, Violence And Democracy In South Africa
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Publication Name: Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Magick Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.4 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Adam Ashforth
Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
