How do Ghanaian Pentecostals resolve the contradictions of their
own faith while remaining faithful to their religious identity?
Bringing together the anthropology of Christianity and the
anthropology of ethics, Girish Daswani's Looking Back, Moving
Forward investigates the compromises with the past that members of
Ghana's Church of Pentecost make in order to remain committed
Christians. Even as church members embrace the break with the past
that comes from being "born-again," many are less concerned with
the boundaries of Christian practice than with interpersonal
questions - the continuity of suffering after conversion, the
causes of unhealthy relationships, the changes brought about by
migration - and how to deal with them. By paying ethnographic
attention to the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships,
and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the
Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the Ghanaian diaspora in
London, Looking Back, Moving Forward explores ethical practice as
it emerges out of the questions that church members and other
Ghanaian Pentecostals ask themselves.
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