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"In nineteenth-century Ghana, regional warfare rooted in profound social and economic transformations led thousands of displaced people to seek refuge in the small mountain kingdom of Akuapem. There they encountered missionaries from Germany whose message of sin and forgiveness struck many of t...
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in world Christianity (Waco, Tex.)
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In nineteenth-century Ghana, regional warfare rooted in profound social and economic transformations led thousands of displaced people to seek refuge in the small mountain kingdom of Akuapem. There they encountered missionaries from Germany whose message of sin and forgiveness struck many of these newcomers as irrelevant to their needs. However, together with Akuapem's natives, these newcomers began reformulating Christianity as a ritual tool for social and physical healing, as well as power, in a dangerous spiritual and human world. The result was Ghana's oldest African-initiated variant of Christianity: a homegrown expression of unbroken moral, political, and religious priorities. Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast in the middle of the nineteenth century, Healing and Power in Ghana identifies patterns of indigenous reception, rejection, and reformulation of what had initially arrived, centuries earlier, as a European trade religion. Paul Grant draws on a mixture of European and indigenous sources in several languages, building on recent scholarship in world Christianity to address the question of conversion through the lens of the indigenous moral imagination. This approach considers, among other things, the conditions in which Akuapem locals and newly arrived displaced persons might find Christianity useful or applicable to their needs. This is no traditional history of the European-African religious encounter. Ghanaian Christians identified the missionaries according to preexisting political and religious categories--as a new class of shrine priests. They resolved their own social crises in ways the missionaries were unable to understand. In effect, Christianity became an indigenous religion years before indigenous people converted in any appreciable numbers. By foregrounding the sacrificial idiom shared by locals, missionaries, and native thinkers, Healing and Power in Ghana presents a new model of scholarship for both West African history and world Christianity." -- |
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| 520 | |a "In nineteenth-century Ghana, regional warfare rooted in profound social and economic transformations led thousands of displaced people to seek refuge in the small mountain kingdom of Akuapem. There they encountered missionaries from Germany whose message of sin and forgiveness struck many of these newcomers as irrelevant to their needs. However, together with Akuapem's natives, these newcomers began reformulating Christianity as a ritual tool for social and physical healing, as well as power, in a dangerous spiritual and human world. The result was Ghana's oldest African-initiated variant of Christianity: a homegrown expression of unbroken moral, political, and religious priorities. Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast in the middle of the nineteenth century, Healing and Power in Ghana identifies patterns of indigenous reception, rejection, and reformulation of what had initially arrived, centuries earlier, as a European trade religion. Paul Grant draws on a mixture of European and indigenous sources in several languages, building on recent scholarship in world Christianity to address the question of conversion through the lens of the indigenous moral imagination. This approach considers, among other things, the conditions in which Akuapem locals and newly arrived displaced persons might find Christianity useful or applicable to their needs. This is no traditional history of the European-African religious encounter. Ghanaian Christians identified the missionaries according to preexisting political and religious categories--as a new class of shrine priests. They resolved their own social crises in ways the missionaries were unable to understand. In effect, Christianity became an indigenous religion years before indigenous people converted in any appreciable numbers. By foregrounding the sacrificial idiom shared by locals, missionaries, and native thinkers, Healing and Power in Ghana presents a new model of scholarship for both West African history and world Christianity." -- |c From Amazon | ||
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| contents | Introduction: The Moral Imagination -- 1. Primal Globalization -- 2. The Existing Ritual Toolkit -- 3. Three Hundred Years of Irrelevance -- 4. Satan's Strongholds -- 5. How the Missionaries Became Shrine Priests -- 6. Divergent Modes of Hermeneutics -- 7. States of Exception -- Conclusion: The Cross and the Machete. |
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| spelling | Grant, Paul, 1975 September 9- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjDDCMVkRHg6YgvmgMHBKb http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006071299 Healing and power in Ghana : early indigenous expressions of Christianity / Paul Glen Grant. Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in world Christianity Introduction: The Moral Imagination -- 1. Primal Globalization -- 2. The Existing Ritual Toolkit -- 3. Three Hundred Years of Irrelevance -- 4. Satan's Strongholds -- 5. How the Missionaries Became Shrine Priests -- 6. Divergent Modes of Hermeneutics -- 7. States of Exception -- Conclusion: The Cross and the Machete. "In nineteenth-century Ghana, regional warfare rooted in profound social and economic transformations led thousands of displaced people to seek refuge in the small mountain kingdom of Akuapem. There they encountered missionaries from Germany whose message of sin and forgiveness struck many of these newcomers as irrelevant to their needs. However, together with Akuapem's natives, these newcomers began reformulating Christianity as a ritual tool for social and physical healing, as well as power, in a dangerous spiritual and human world. The result was Ghana's oldest African-initiated variant of Christianity: a homegrown expression of unbroken moral, political, and religious priorities. Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast in the middle of the nineteenth century, Healing and Power in Ghana identifies patterns of indigenous reception, rejection, and reformulation of what had initially arrived, centuries earlier, as a European trade religion. Paul Grant draws on a mixture of European and indigenous sources in several languages, building on recent scholarship in world Christianity to address the question of conversion through the lens of the indigenous moral imagination. This approach considers, among other things, the conditions in which Akuapem locals and newly arrived displaced persons might find Christianity useful or applicable to their needs. This is no traditional history of the European-African religious encounter. Ghanaian Christians identified the missionaries according to preexisting political and religious categories--as a new class of shrine priests. They resolved their own social crises in ways the missionaries were unable to understand. In effect, Christianity became an indigenous religion years before indigenous people converted in any appreciable numbers. By foregrounding the sacrificial idiom shared by locals, missionaries, and native thinkers, Healing and Power in Ghana presents a new model of scholarship for both West African history and world Christianity." -- From Amazon Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2020). Christianity Ghana. Ghana Religious life and customs History. Healing Religious aspects Christianity. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105518 Christianity and culture Ghana. Spiritual healing. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126755 Christianity Influence. Africa Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006005642 Christianisme Ghāna. Guérison Aspect religieux Christianisme. Guérison par la foi. Christianisme Influence. Afrique Religion. Spiritual healing fast Religion fast Healing Religious aspects Christianity fast Christianity Influence fast Christianity and culture fast Christianity fast Ghana fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrwWdFrtwYQThrFvRGJXd Africa fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3 History fast has work: Healing and power in Ghana (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGqmGGbBMMpCcJw9VgyDbd https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: 1481312677 9781481312677 (OCoLC)1157561530 Studies in world Christianity (Waco, Tex.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013142031 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2681155 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Grant, Paul, 1975 September 9- Healing and power in Ghana : early indigenous expressions of Christianity / Studies in world Christianity (Waco, Tex.) Introduction: The Moral Imagination -- 1. Primal Globalization -- 2. The Existing Ritual Toolkit -- 3. Three Hundred Years of Irrelevance -- 4. Satan's Strongholds -- 5. How the Missionaries Became Shrine Priests -- 6. Divergent Modes of Hermeneutics -- 7. States of Exception -- Conclusion: The Cross and the Machete. Christianity Ghana. Healing Religious aspects Christianity. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105518 Christianity and culture Ghana. Spiritual healing. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126755 Christianity Influence. Christianisme Ghāna. Guérison Aspect religieux Christianisme. Guérison par la foi. Christianisme Influence. Spiritual healing fast Religion fast Healing Religious aspects Christianity fast Christianity Influence fast Christianity and culture fast Christianity fast |
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| title_full | Healing and power in Ghana : early indigenous expressions of Christianity / Paul Glen Grant. |
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| topic | Christianity Ghana. Healing Religious aspects Christianity. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105518 Christianity and culture Ghana. Spiritual healing. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126755 Christianity Influence. Christianisme Ghāna. Guérison Aspect religieux Christianisme. Guérison par la foi. Christianisme Influence. Spiritual healing fast Religion fast Healing Religious aspects Christianity fast Christianity Influence fast Christianity and culture fast Christianity fast |
| topic_facet | Christianity Ghana. Ghana Religious life and customs History. Healing Religious aspects Christianity. Christianity and culture Ghana. Spiritual healing. Christianity Influence. Africa Religion. Christianisme Ghāna. Guérison Aspect religieux Christianisme. Guérison par la foi. Christianisme Influence. Afrique Religion. Spiritual healing Religion Healing Religious aspects Christianity Christianity Influence Christianity and culture Christianity Ghana Africa History |
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