The Spiritual Dimensions of Exile

uch mainstream war reporting on African conflict has tended to invoke barbaric portrayals of those perpetrating violence on the one hand, and those displaced and helpless, waiting for the assistance of interveners, on the other. Yet these simplistic portrayals do not seem reflect lived experiences of war, or displacement. Recent academic research has revealed the spiritual, magico-religious entanglements involved in leading and waging war, and in coping with its e

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