Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost
Girish Daswani
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 anthropology of ethics, Girish Daswani’s Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the compromises with the past that members of Ghana’s Church of Pentecost make in order to remain committed Christians.
Even as church members embrace the break with the past that comes from being “born-again,” many are less concerned with the boundaries of Christian practice than with interpersonal questions – the continuity of suffering after conversion, the causes of unhealthy relationships, the changes brought about ... Read more
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Reviews for Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost
Anna Strhan
Marginalia Review of Books - January 2016
‘An excellent contribution to the study of migrant faith, this book also has much to say about spirituality and religious practice more broadly ... Read more