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Translating the Devil : Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana /
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,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | International African Library : IAL
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Maps and Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the scene: Peki past and present
- 2 The home base of the missionaries
- 3 Vernacularisation
- 4 Diabolisation
- 5 Three churches out of one
- 6 Doctrines and rituals
- 7 People and spirits
- Epilogue: Modernity, time and the Devil
- Appendix: Population statistics
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index