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Several Christian groups believe in witchcraft and view it as a negative force. Many fundamentalist Christians believe that witchcraft is a danger to children. [ 30 ] The 2006 documentary Jesus Camp , which depicts the life of young children attending Becky Fischer's summer camp, shows Fischer condemning the Harry Potter novels and telling the ...
In colonial America and the United States, views of witchcraft were further shaped by European colonists. The infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, along with other witch hunts in places like Maryland and Pennsylvania, exemplified European and Christian fear and hysteria surrounding accusations of witchcraft. These trials led to the ...
What sets the "witches" of Latin America apart from their European counterparts is the blend of religiosity and spirituality. Latin American "witches" are rooted in African magic, European spiritualism, and Indigenous practices, making them practice an integrated version of spirituality. [8] [9]
The Christian view was that magic was a product of the Babylonians, Persians, or Egyptians. [77] The Christians shared with earlier classical culture the idea that magic was something distinct from proper religion, although drew their distinction between the two in different ways. [78]
1938 First Debbarma Christian, Manindra Debbarma, is baptized at Agartala; 1938 Tripura Baptist Christian Union established at Laxmilunga, Tripura; 1939 Southern and Northern US branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church, along with the Methodist Protestant Church, reunite to form The Methodist Church (slavery had divided the church in the 19th ...
1320: Pope John XXII laid the groundwork for future witch-hunts with the formalisation of the persecution of witchcraft. 1378 – 1417: The Roman Catholic Church split during the Western Schism . 1415: The death of Jan Hus who is considered as the first reformer of the Western Christianity .
The Democratization of American Christianity (1989). excerpt and text search; Johnson, Paul, ed. African-American Christianity: Essays in History, (1994) complete text online free; Keller, Rosemary Skinner, and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (3 vol 2006)
(Biblical interpretation, the architecture of the Jewish Temple, ancient history, alchemy and the Apocalypse). "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: original manuscripts of alchemy". dlib.indiana.edu. Newton wrote and transcribed about a million words on the subject of alchemy "Catalogue of Newton's Alchemical Papers". newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk.