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

by Birgit Meyer

Book Overview

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