This article is a free rendering of a chapter of my book Encounter of Religions: Faith and no–Faith in a Global World. Therein one can also find the scientific apparatus. Here, I present an account of cases of sorcery in Papua New Guinea as well as instances when Christians’ views about or responses to sorcery were documented and analyzed.
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