Enchanted Calvinism - Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana

Enchanted Calvinism's surprising central proposition is that Ghanaian Presbyterian communities have become more enchanted -- i.e., attuned to spiritual explanations of and remedies for suffering -- as they have become moreintegrated into capitalist modes of production.

List of contents

Introduction
The Disenchantment of Ghana's Basel Mission, 1828-1918
Enchanted Competition for the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, 1918-60s
The Enchantment of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, 1960-2010
The School of Deliverance and the Enchantment of the Ghanaian Presbyterian Churches in North America
The Enchantment of the United Ghanaian Community Church, Philadelphia
Gendered Transformations of Enchanted Calvinism in the Ghanaian Presbyterian Diaspora
Conclusion
Appendix: Deliverance Questionnaire
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Adam Mohr

Product details

• Authors: Adam Mohr
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9781580464628
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-462-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity