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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt
A witch-hunt was traditionally a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, which could lead to a witchcraft trial involving the accus...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Usage
A witchhunt in modern terminology refers to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when the search is condu...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Usage
A witchhunt in modern terminology refers to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when the search is condu...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Early Modern Europe
For several centuries, dominantly Christian societies believed that Satan was acting through human and animal servants. These beliefs can...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Early Modern Europe
For several centuries, dominantly Christian societies believed that Satan was acting through human and animal servants. These beliefs ca...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Witchhunts
Witch-hunt - Religious deprogramming.
Hundreds of members of the Unification Church who were caught and harangued by deprogrammers comp...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Day Care Sex Abuse
One recent example of a widescale witchhunt in a Western society is the McMartin preschool case. The McMartin preschool owner and employe...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - The Burning Times
"The Burning Times" is an English term that was invented by Mary Daly and first used in her book, Gyn/Ecology: The Meta-Ethics of Radical...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - The Burning Times
"The Burning Times" is an English term referring to the time of the Great European Witchhunts (1450-1750). Its first recorded use is by G...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Africa
In many African societies the fear of witches drives periodic witchhunts during which specialist witch finders identify suspects, even to...
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Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Sociology
Sociology has attributed the occurrence of witchhunts to the human necessity to blame problems on someone. For example, Europe during the...
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