Ritual Servitudes And Christian Social Practices In Ghana

Author : David Stiles-Ocran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000770025

Get Book

Ritual Servitudes and Christian Social Practices in Ghana by David Stiles-Ocran Pdf

This book explores the kinds of Christian service or diaconia that develop in non-institutionalized practices for supporting survivors of indigenous ritual servitude or Trokosi in Africa. Drawing on empirical research from Ghana, it examines the possibilities of freedom, equality, and dignity for liberated Trokosi and the manner in which these women’s experiences constitute a repudiation of dominant patriarchal family systems. With close attention to the work of indigenous parachurches – which function outside of institutionalized churches – in challenging the contemporary practice of ritual slavery and offering its survivors a lived space in which they need not remain “hidden” as they seek restoration and integration into wider society, Ritual Servitudes and Christian Social Practices in Ghana will appeal to scholars of sociology, theology, and religion with interests in gender, contemporary ministries and African religion.

Author : Wisdom Yaw Mensah,Francis Ebenezer Godwyll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1438949499

Get Book

Female Ritual Servitude by Wisdom Yaw Mensah,Francis Ebenezer Godwyll Pdf

The first mention of the word "Trokosi can be traced to the work of A. B. Ellis in 1890 writing on the topic of "Priesthood" in "The Ewe Speaking People of the Gold Coast." As far back as the early 1900s a protest letter was submitted by a native of the Gold Coast to the Colonial Secretary of Native Affairs calling for an end to a practice that marginalized, dehumanized and treated young virgins as slaves "consecrated" to the gods. Unfortunately in 2009 the fight still continues. The authors bring light to an issue greatly in need of critical scrutiny. This book poignantly elucidates firsthand accounts of the voices of the Trokosi victims, the geographical spread of the practice, interrogates the social context in which the practice thrives, traces the travailing journeys of the victims, discusses the liberation efforts and rehabilitation programs, examines the role of civil society in confronting the system and closes with the tensions within the discourses that support or reject the Trokosi system.

Author : Paul V.I. Sidlawinde Karenga
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030881207

Get Book

A West African Model to Address Human Trafficking by Paul V.I. Sidlawinde Karenga Pdf

This book describes the nature of trafficking in persons in West Africa, focusing on labor and sexual exploitation in the region, and recommends tailor-made solutions established by the Catholic Church in light of governmental authorities’ failure to effectively combat this scourge of humanity. While states’ efforts to fulfill their international obligations in developing anti-trafficking legislations are recognized, their failure to carry out prosecutions of offenders and ensure protection of the victims reveals that law alone is not a sufficient instrument for realizing human rights and improving people’s lives. Faced with the sobering background of less than successful efforts by governmental entities to end the trade in humans, this research study recommends adopting essential elements of Catholic social teaching, which rests on the inherent dignity of human beings allowing the development of political, socio-cultural, and religious reforms that will increase the effectiveness of existing legislation designed to combat trafficking. This faith-based approach highlights the role that religion may play in fulfilling the discretionary provisions of the Palermo Protocol by promoting the welfare and protecting the life and dignity of the victims. Additionally, religion is composed of sound moral ethics that determine people's behavior to refrain from the sinful conduct of trafficking. It also creates a sense of ethical responsibility that promotes supply chain transparency and ethical purchasing as well as advocating social reforms and anti-trafficking legislations initiatives. In fact, the author's approach, may be a model for other regions in the world and will be of interest to scholars, law and policy makers, human rights advocates and law enforcement agents working in the field of trafficking in persons.

Author : Charles Prempeh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956553907

Get Book

The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana by Charles Prempeh Pdf

In March 2017, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufu announced his intention to build a national cathedral to the people of Ghana. The announcement elicited watertight counter arguments that morphed into two a priori re-litigated assumptions: First, Ghana is a secular country and second, religion and state formation are incompatible. Informed by a frustrating paradox of an overwhelming religious presence and concurrent pervasive corruption in the country, public conversation reached a cul-de-sac of “conviction without compromising.” In The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana, Charles Prempeh deploys the national cathedral as an entry point to provide both interdisciplinary and autoethnographic understanding of religion and politics. The book shows the capacity of religion, when properly cultivated and curated as a worldview to answer the why questions of life, will foster personal, moral, collective and ontological responsibility. All this is needed to stem the tide against corruption, commodity fetishism, environmental degradation (illegal mining—galamsey), heritage destruction and religious exploitation. Prempeh recuperates a historical fact about the mutual inclusivity between religion and politics—politics helping to manage differences, while religion provides a transcendental reason for unity to be forged for human flourishing. Separating the two is, therefore, ahistorical and an obvious threat to the intangible virtues that answers, “why and how” questions for public governance.

Author : Meera Venkatachalam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107108271

Get Book

Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850–Present by Meera Venkatachalam Pdf

This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.

Author : Yinka Omorogbe,Ada Ordor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192551733

Get Book

Ending Africa's Energy Deficit and the Law by Yinka Omorogbe,Ada Ordor Pdf

With the inclusion of access to energy in the sustainable development goals, the role of energy to human existence was finally recognized. Yet, in Africa, this achievement is far from realized. Omorogbe and Ordor bring together experts in their fields to ask what is stalling progress, examining problems from institutions catering to vested interests at the continent's expense, to a need to develop vigorous financial and fiscal frameworks. The ramifications and complications of energy law are labyrinthine: this volume discusses how energy deficits can burden disabled people, women, and children in excess of their more fortunate counterparts, as well as considering environmental issues, including the delicate balance between the necessity of water for drinking and cleaning and the use of water in industrial processes. A pivotal work of scholarship, the book poses pressing questions for energy law and international human rights.

Author : Marijke Steegstra
Publisher : Lit Verlag
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061015759

Get Book

Resilient Rituals by Marijke Steegstra Pdf

How should modern Ghanaians relate to 'culture'? This is a hotly debated issue in Ghana, where the annual performance of the initiation rites for Krobo girls (dipo) is highly contested. Drawing on extensive fieldwork as well as missionary and colonial archives, this book shows how the contemporary performance of dipo relates to and is shaped by Krobo encounters with missionary Christianity, colonial intervention and modern nationalism. Krobo responses to global processes of change involved considerable resistance, and over time, ongoing local struggles but also a pursuit of cultural resilience.

Author : Roxane Richter,Thomas Flowers,Elias Bongmba, Rice University
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498523196

Get Book

Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis by Roxane Richter,Thomas Flowers,Elias Bongmba, Rice University Pdf

This interdisciplinary manuscript examines one nonprofit’s five years of medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on the clashes between traditional Ghanaian beliefs, African religious tenets, and contemporary Western medical science. The research draws upon 1,714 patient interventions and 95 personal interviews, exposing the inherent challenges of separating indigenous beliefs surrounding fate and witchcraft convictions from contemporary interpretations of biological pathogens, structural and gender-based violence, and evidence-based medicine. This book offers a novel perspective on witchcraft as it examines questions of stigmatization in order to extrapolate how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. These unprecedented insights will serve to uncover and explore rural Ghanaian challenges in gender-based violence, religion, legal and political tenets, human rights, and medical science and their many implications for those in search of health parity, social justice, gender equity, and human rights.

Author : Rosalind I. J. Hackett,Benjamin F. Soares
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253015303

Get Book

New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa by Rosalind I. J. Hackett,Benjamin F. Soares Pdf

New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such media to strengthen and expand their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other groups, which has sometimes led to tension, conflict, and even violence. Showing how media are rarely neutral vehicles of expression, the contributors to this multidisciplinary volume analyze the mutual imbrications of media and religion during times of rapid technological and social change in various places throughout Africa.

Author : Dennis Beach,Carl Bagley,Sofia Marques da Silva
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118933701

Get Book

The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education by Dennis Beach,Carl Bagley,Sofia Marques da Silva Pdf

A state-of-the-art reference on educational ethnography edited by leading journal editors This book brings an international group of writers together to offer an authoritative state-of-the-art review of, and critical reflection on, educational ethnography as it is being theorized and practiced today—from rural and remote settings to virtual and visual posts. It provides a definitive reference point and academic resource for those wishing to learn more about ethnographic research in education and the ways in which it might inform their research as well as their practice. Engaging in equal measure with the history of ethnography, its current state-of play as well as its prospects, The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education covers a range of traditional and contemporary subjects—foundational aims and principles; what constitutes ‘good’ ethnographic practice; the role of theory; global and multi-sited ethnographic methods in education research; ethnography’s many forms (visual, virtual, auto-, and online); networked ethnography and internet resources; and virtual and place-based ethnographic fieldwork. Makes a return to fundamental principles of ethnographic inquiry, and describes and analyzes the many modalities of ethnography existing today Edited by highly-regarded authorities of the subject with contributions from well-known experts in ethnography Reviews both classic ideas in the ethnography of education, such as “grounded theory”, “triangulation”, and “thick description” along with new developments and challenges An ideal source for scholars in libraries as well as researchers out in the field The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education is a definitive reference that is indispensable for anyone involved in educational ethnography and questions of methodology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Child slaves
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112326967

Get Book

Report of the Second National Workshop on Trokosi System in Ghana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061895921

Get Book

African Journal of International and Comparative Law by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ghana Geographical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Geography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117290457

Get Book

Bulletin of the Ghana Geographical Association by Ghana Geographical Association Pdf

Author : Paul Gifford
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015059152028

Get Book

Ghana's New Christianity by Paul Gifford Pdf

In sub-Saharan Africa over the last two decades there has been an explosion of Christianity. This book sets out to identify its particular character, focusing on a particular place: Greater Accra, the capital of Ghana. Paul Gifford examines a wide range of Accra's new churches, giving priority to mega-churches. Every dimension -- discourse, theological vision, worship, rituals, music, media involvement, use of the Bible, conventions, finances, clientele -- is analysed. Gifford argues that this Christianity is not otherworldly: its emphasis is on success, achievement, wealth here and now. Yet within this general orientation there is diversity. At one end of the spectrum are churches that, building on the traditional religious imagination, see demonic forces everywhere blocking personal success. In the churches the key factor is the special 'man of God' who is understood to have the 'anointing' to conquer these forces, to 'reverse the curse' that is holding the believer back. At the other end is a strain of this new Christianity that discounts spiritual forces and sees victory resulting from the believer's own education and skills, and from transforming culture.The book also joins the debate over the role of this Christianity in modernizing economic and political structures. It sets the scene by describing Ghana's political and economic situation in the decades when these churches were proliferating, and outlines the current debate on the reasons for Africa's economic plight. It is argued that although focusing on success and wealth can provide motivation in circumstances where it is so easy to despair, the pervasive emphasis on miracles militates against any natural fostering of a new work ethic. As for their political role, some churches are easily co-opted; others challenge the government, but for 'spiritual' reasons that provide little incentive to grapple with issues of governance; by contrast, Gifford finds one important church encouraging change of the entire political culture. No other book has set forth the complex nature of Africa's new Christianity with such clarity, or offered such a searching analysis of its power to tackle Africa's predicament.

Author : Anne Caroline Bailey
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Anlo (African people)
ISBN : 0807055123

Get Book

African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Anne Caroline Bailey Pdf

It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now'--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called "the Old Slave Coast"--Share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories that were handed down through generations, Bailey finds that, although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating consequences on their history and identity. In this unprecedented and revelatory book, Bailey explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory. From the Trade Paperback edition