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ABSTRACT This research work focused on “the origin of witchcraft and its remedies in the 21st century.” Oral interview and questionnaires were used to collect adequate information on the case study. In today’s world of endless wars, failing economies, corrupt governance, rampant secularism and unbridled cultural perversions there is a need for solution to all these man’s ills. This motivated me to research on the need for a fresh global move of the Holy Spirit which is God’s ultimate solution to world’s multitude of problems. This can be carried out by His grace and power through an awakened church. Revival is the cure of all human evils. Revival, then, is what the church and the world needs. And revival is just what God wants to give. Believers ought to pray for it consistently and prepare themselves for it continually. However the researcher concludes by recommending that, the church need to spend time in prayer asking for an out pouring of God’s Spirit, the church need to focus on church growth through the power of God when witnessing Christ by pursuing divine leading than focus on activities that they think would work, the church need to take spiritual discipline seriously by following Christian ethics and the church needs to focus on the scriptures, so that they may learn the word and observe what it says.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
CHAPTER THREE: 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Research Design 3.3 Study Population 3.4 Sample and Sampling Technique 3.5 Data for the Study: Instrumentation 3.5.1 Instrumentation 3.5.2 Validity of Instrument 3.6 Method of Data Analysis
CHAPTER FOUR: 4.1 Data Presentation Analysis and Discussions
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS 5.1 Summary 5.2 Conclusions 5.3 Recommendations APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
The academic study of religion is built on early speculation about the origins of belief and ritual practice. Late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century fathers of the field cast their imaginations back in time and speculated on early “man” and his experiences. What caused “him” to look past the material world, to become so certain that there were forces beyond it? What great strivings to serve drove him to accomplishments of architecture and civilization, yet also left him enslaved to false ideas and fears, displacing his own powers into the heavens? In pursuing these origins, foundational scholars, such as Tylor, Frazer, Durkheim, and Freud, turned to distinctions between religion and magic as key to understanding the role of religion in human culture and individual lives. Over the last few decades, contemporary scholars have laid bare an historiography of the field as one steeped in competing ideologies, despite its aspirations to objectivity. This is not a unique story; it reflects an interdisciplinary experience across academe. Yet, there is a special sting for the academic study of religion because, as many scholars labor to articulate differences between their endeavors and those of theologians, the very methods, categories, vocabulary, and concerns of the discipline turn out largely to be unacknowledged inheritances from Christian theology (Masuzawa 2005). The distinction between religion and magic that so captivated early theorists is one of these heirlooms, initially arising from missionizing concerns as Christianity spread to Europe, but developing most fully during the witch panics of the early modern period (1450–1750 CE). Theories about religious origins and the proper distinctions between religion and magic are products of and perpetuators of intersecting mechanisms of power. This article focuses on the shadows of witchcraft, and therefore women, in both the formative debates of our field and in contemporary engagements with feminist new religious movements. Keywords: A STUDY ON THE ORIGIN OF WITCHCRAFT AND IT’S REMEDIES IN THE 21st CENTURY
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