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 …

"... one of those rare edited volumes that advances social thought as it provides substantive
religious and media ethnography that is good to think with."--Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth …

'My grandmother no more celebrates the Homowo festival,'my friend Adwoa told me when we
discussed the currently hotly debated questio as to how modem Ghanaians could relate to …

▪ Abstract Taking as a point of departure Fernandez's survey (1978), this review seeks to
show how research on African Independent Churches (AICs) has been reconfigured by new …

About a year ago I was appointed to the Chair of Religious Studies in the Department of
Religious Studies and Theology in the Faculty of Humanities. As I soon realized, my …

One of the key features of Pentecostal/charismatic churches is their sensational appeal. Taking
as a point of departure the experience of the Holy Spirit as a “portable,” embodied power …

This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of
religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic …

‘‘Praise the Lord’’: Page 1 ABSTRACT In this article I examine the elective affinity between
Pentecostalism and the vibrant video-film industry that has flourished in the wake of Ghana’s …

Taking as a starting point the paradox that immediacy is not prior to, but rather a product of
mediation, this essay argues that the negotiation of newly available media technologies is key …

This tension between globalization and identity—between homogenizing trends and reinforced
cultural heterogeneity, between flow and closure—is the common focus of this volume, …