Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana

by Birgit Meyer

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This book offers an ethnography of the emergence of a local Christianity and its relation to changing social, political and economic formations among the Peki Ewe in Ghana. Focusing on the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which arose from encounters between the Ewe and German Piestist missionaries, the author examines recent conflicts leading to the secession of many pentecostally oriented members, which it places in a historical perspective. The...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:074861303X

ISBN13:9780748613038

Release Date:July 1999

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Length:288 Pages

Related Subjects

Africa Anthropology Christian Books & Bibles Christianity Church History Churches & Church Leadership Cultural Ghana History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious History Religious Studies Social Science Social Sciences

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