Assertion: obeah | /r/HasProperty | ritual
Facets:
value: in this sense
type: OTHER
value: from an african worldview
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Obeah was a ritual existing within the core worldview of the Africans.
text: Witchcraft, Vodou, Obeah, or by whatever name you prefer to call it is the ritual part of generating a spiritual force.
text: Obeah, therefore, was a ritual from an African worldview that was used by Africans enslaved in Jamaica, to interpret the injustice of their oppressive economic exploitation and brutal dehumanization, unite themselves, and strengthen their psychological fortitude in their resistance to one of the worst evils ever perpetuated against millions of innocent people over hundreds of years: European slavery of non-whites.
text: Anyways…obeah, therefore, is a ritual used by its believers to access the supernatural realm for help with problems and needs in the natural world.
text: In this sense, obeah, being a ritual that accesses entities in the supernatural world to influence events in the natural world, is parallel to other long-accepted rituals that do the same.
text: Witchcraft, Vodou, Obeah, or by whatever name you prefer to call it is the ritual part of generating a spiritual force.
text: Witchcraft, Vodou, Obeah, or by whatever name you prefer to call it is the ritual part of generating a spiritual force.