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The study of supernatural powers is fraught with vexing
hermeneutical challenges, which aggravate further in the African
context. While on the one hand, Western anthropology tends to
discount the idea of supernatural powers by attempting to "explain
them away," on the other, Western biblical scholarship has mainly
worked from the premise of "demythologising" them. But none of
these approaches makes sense to African scholars, for whom
supernatual powers constitute an integral component of their
spiritual psyche. This book, based on an examination of over a
thousand documentary sources (both classic and modern), attempts to
address the issue of interpreting supernatural powers from an
African worldview. The author analyzes, identifies, and critiques
major hermeneutical errors and offers a "bridging hermeneutic,"
using the method of reader response criticism.
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