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

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Meyer, Birgit,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:International African Library : IAL
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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