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Noelle Bowles examines Ryan Coogler’s hit film “Sinners,” speaking with Tony Kail, cultural anthropologist and scholar of Hoodoo, about how this story of vampires and the blues in the Jim Crow south faithfully incorporates Hoodoo and rootworking.
Brazil’s battle over the land rights of Indigenous communities also exposes how Christian evangelical movements are undermining religious freedom and eroding Indigenous culture
In response to a perceived rise “Neopaganism” among Nigerian youth, Catholic Bishops in Owerri expressed alarm linking magical and ritualistic practices to crime, subsequently the nearby Anambra State government launched a campaign to eradicate pagan shrines, prompting debates about religious freedom and tolerance in Nigeria.
The newly converted, long-troubled, and now re-themed flume ride at Walt Disney World has reportedly been cleansed of New Orleans Voodoo references to appease Christian guests.
Customs officials in Dubai confiscate suspected witchcraft material from smugglers.
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