Ritual as mechanism for securing life and averting evil among the Krobo
Ritual is one of the ways in which a group of people or a believing community expresses in concrete terms their faith in a deity(ies). Two of the many functions of rituals are to secure blessings from the deity or to ward off evil. This article studies four Krobo rituals to explore the ultimate mea...
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Main Author: | G. Ossom-Batsa |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2008-06-01
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Series: | Acta Theologica |
Online Access: | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/2191 |
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