How do Ghanaian Pentecostals resolve the contradictions of their own faith while remaining
faithful to their religious identity? Bringing together the anthropology of Christianity and the …

In a situation of growing interest in the religion of migrants, there are still few publications
dealing with pentecostal and charismatic Christians from the global South and the churches …

Over the past decade, a handful of human geographers have started writing on the topic of
'wisdom'—a research field that has long been dominated by philosophers and …

Based on an ethnographic case study conducted in the Dormaa District, this article
describes a group which has emerged in southern Ghana in the last decades and is called …

Abstract Akan-speaking Methodists in London make sense of their diasporic experience by
claiming 'virtuous' citizenship. Regardless of their legal and formal status, they feel …

The Lea Valley Industrial Park of northeast London there are more than ten transnational
churches founded by African migrants. The chapter explores the social disconnectedness by …

While an ideology of rupture is central to understanding Pentecostal Christianity in Ghana,
not enough attention has been given to the moral relationships and ritual practices that help …

This is a study on the creative appropriation of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) by mobile Africans and the communities to which they belong, home …

This volume explores the interferences of trance mediums and new technical media to add a
new perspective to current debates on the “renaissance of the religious “. Situated in the …

This thesis is an ethnographic investigation into how Pentecostalism impacts on the
religious, family and work life of Nigerian migrants in London, and overall how such religious …