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Healing and Power in Ghana - Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity (Hardcover)
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Healing and Power in Ghana - Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity (Hardcover)
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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 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. Ghanian Christians identified
the missionaries according to preexisting political and religious
categoriesaas 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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