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Frank Hoare

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A Pastoral Approach to Spirit Possession and Witchcraft Manifestations among the Fijian People

Mission studies 2004 Frank Hoare

Abstract: In this article Columban missionary, Frank Hoare, examines incidents of spirit possession and witchcraft accusations in a Catholic Fijian village. Spirit possession has a communal dimension in socio-centric cultures and the tensions of the community are played out in and through the messages of the spirit. Crises of evil are understood as essentially moral and connect the individual,...