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Asante Catholicism: Religious and Cultural Reproduction Among the Akan of Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa) |  | Authors: J. Pashington Obeng, Pashington Obeng
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $125.00
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Sales Rank: 5120809
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 243
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 9004106316
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.089963385
EAN: 9789004106314
ASIN: 9004106316
Publication Date: June 1, 1996
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Product Description
Asante Catholicism focuses on the interaction between post-conciliar Roman Catholicism and Asante religion of Ghana, with its implications for self-definition and cultural renewal. It begins by exploring Asante cultural history, and depicting how their religo-political institutions were affected during contact with European traders, missionaries, and colonial authorities. It further highlights the mutual shaping between Catholicism and the indigenous Asante worldview. The fusion between Christianity and Asante ways creates conflict, innovation, and modification as the Church reinterprets Christian values and figures along Asante notions. For example, Jesus Christ is reconfigured as kurotwiamansa (leopard). Sections on the interface between Catholic beliefs and Asante socio-political institutions are particularly important for missiologists. Finally, the book discusses religious vocabulary, spirituality, theology, and the role of community during social and religious change.
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