Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity Grant Paul Glen
Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity Grant Paul Glen In nineteenth-century Ghana, regional warfare rooted in profound social and economic transformations led…
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Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity Grant Paul Glen
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. 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. There they encountered missionaries from Germany whose message of sin and forgiveness struck many of these newcomers as irrelevant to their needs.
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