Healing and Power in Ghana

Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast in the middle of the nineteenth century, Healing and Power in Ghana identifies patterns of indigenous reception, rejection, and reformulation of what had initially arrived, centuries earlier, as a European trade religion.

In Ghana din secolul al XIX-lea, razboiul regional inradacinat in profunde transformari sociale si economice a determinat mii de oameni stramutati sa caute refugiu in micul regat montan Akuapem. Acolo au intalnit misionari din Germania al caror mesaj al pacatului si al iertarii i-a surprins pe multi dintre acesti nou-veniti ca fiind irelevanti pentru nevoile lor.