Translating the Devil : : Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana / / Birgit Meyer.
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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