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8. Reframing Thinking and Action: A Way Forward in Responding to Child Witch Accusations through Contextualized Participatory Engagement

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  • We welcome this significant contribution to research on the issue of witch accusations against children and the involvement of church leaders

  • In their article they highlight that every day the pastors of EPED1 “. . . confront the fact that alleged witches are actual people who suffer actual consequences of being named a witch . . . and that when this person is a child, such an accusation raises profound moral, ethical, and practical questions of engagement” (45). In this response we share our experience of a contextualised, theologically–informed model of engagement which has had a highly positive impact on church leaders. This approach has often led to radical shifts in thinking and action, mobilising many to champion the cause of protecting children from child witch accusations

  • From the outset of our early encounters with this issue in 2012, SCWA 2 recognised the importance of engaging with church leaders from across all the church streams, since, as Priest et al note, “churches today, for good or ill, arguably more than any other social institution, play a central role in influencing people’s understandings and ideas about child–witches, and their responses to children perceived to be witches” (9)

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We welcome this significant contribution to research on the issue of witch accusations against children and the involvement of church leaders. This approach has often led to radical shifts in thinking and action, mobilising many to champion the cause of protecting children from child witch accusations.

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