Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity

by Paul Glen Grant

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481312677
• ISBN13: 9781481312677
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.2"