Description
Witches and Witch-Hunts
A Global History
Themes in History Series
Author: Behringer Wolfgang
Language: EnglishSubject for Witches and Witch-Hunts:
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Publication date: 09-2004
320 p. · 15.4x23 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 09-2004
320 p. · 16x23.7 cm · Hardback
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Wolfgang Behringer explores the idea of witchcraft as an anthropological phenomenon with a historical dimension, aiming to outline and to understand the meaning of large-scale witchcraft persecutions in early modern Europe and in present-day Africa. He deals systematically with the belief in witchcraft and the persecution of witches, as well as with the process of outlawing witch-hunts. He examines the impact of anti-witch-hunt legislation in Europe, and discusses the problems caused in societies where European law was imposed in colonial times. In conclusion, the relationship between witches old and new is assessed.
This book will make essential reading for all those interested in the history and anthropology of witchcraft and magic.
List of Tables.
Preface.
Chronology.
List of Abbreviations..
1. Introduction..
2. The Belief in Witchcraft..
3. The Persecution of Witches..
4. The European Age of Witch-Hunting..
5. Outlawing Witchcraft Persecution in Europe..
6. Witch-Hunting in the 19th and 20th Centuries..
7. Old and "New Witches"..
8. Epilogue.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
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