Editing Christian views on magic (section)

===Christian opposition to witchcraft===
Several Christian groups believe in witchcraft and view it as a [[Theistic Satanism|negative force]]. Many [[Fundamentalist Christianity|fundamentalist Christians]] believe that witchcraft is a danger to children.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cockrell |first=Amanda |date=2006-02-10 |title=Harry Potter and the Witch Hunters: A Social Context for the Attacks on ''Harry Potter'' |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.2006.00272.x |journal=The Journal of American Culture |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=26 |doi=10.1111/j.1542-734x.2006.00272.x |issn=1542-7331}}</ref> The 2006 documentary ''[[Jesus Camp]]'', which depicts the life of young children attending Becky Fischer's summer camp, shows Fischer [[Religious debates over the Harry Potter series|condemning]] the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' novels and telling the students that "Warlocks are enemies of God".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schaefer |first=Donovan O. |title=Religious affects: animality, evolution, and power |date=2015 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-5982-1 |location=Durham}}</ref> While Fischer's summer camp has sometimes been identified as [[Pentecostal]], Fischer is most closely associated with the [[Neo-Pentecostal|neo-Pentecostal movement]] known as the [[New Apostolic Reformation]] (NAR).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Weaver |first=John |title=The new apostolic reformation: history of a modern charismatic movement |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2421-1 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |pages=95–96}}</ref>

Among Christian organizations, the NAR is especially aggressive in [[spiritual warfare]] efforts to counter alleged acts of witchcraft; the NAR's globally distributed ''Transformations'' documentaries by filmmaker George Otis Jr. show charismatic Christians creating mini-utopias by using [[spiritual mapping]] to locate and drive off [[Territorial spirit|territorial spirits]] and by banishing accused witches.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lampman |first=Jane |date=September 23, 1999 |title=Targeting cities with 'spiritual mapping,' prayer |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1999/0923/p15s1.html |access-date=2024-05-01 |work=[[Christian Science Monitor]] |issn=0882-7729}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |url=https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/29340/holvast.pdf?sequence=2 |title=Spiritual Mapping: The Turbulent Career of a Contested American Missionary Paradigm, 1989-2005 |first=René |last=Holvast |publisher=[[Utrecht University]] |pages=98–99 |access-date=2008-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919034958/https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/29340/holvast.pdf?sequence=2 |archive-date=2015-09-19}}</ref> During the 2008 United States presidential election, footage surfaced from a 2005 church ceremony in which an NAR apostle, Kenyan bishop [[Thomas Muthee]], laid hands on [[Sarah Palin]] and called upon God to protect her from "every form of witchcraft".<ref>{{Cite news |last=MacAskill |first=Ewen |date=2008-09-24 |title=Video shows Palin in anti-witchcraft prayer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/25/sarahpalin.republicans |access-date=2024-05-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=August 19, 2011 |title=The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare |url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/139781021 |access-date=May 1, 2024 |work=[[NPR]]}}</ref><ref name=":0" />