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The Triumph of Christ in African Perspective: A Study of Demonology and Redemption in the African Context is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book explores the implications of the Gospel for traditional African fears of occult aggression. It analyses traditional approaches to suffering and biblical responses to fears of demonic evil, concluding with an evaluation of African beliefs from the perspective of the gospel.

religious beliefs and practices may be exploited by their adherents for many varied purposes, some of which can be quite remote from their overt intention or meaning. The danger, however, is that it may fail to evaluate traditional religion in its own terms, implicitly denying the objective reality of its beliefs and reducing them to their function within society alone. The present study considers traditional African beliefs in witches, sorcerers, malevolent spirits and the like in the light of the
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