" If you are a devil, you are a witch and, if you are a witch, you are a devil": The integration of 'pagan' ideas into the conceptual universe of Ewe Christians in southeastern Ghana

In order to show that the ideas of mission church members are not as westernized as has often been assumed but rather represent an 'African' synthesis opposed to the Africanization propagated by theologians, this article focuses on the members of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EP Chu...

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Main Author: Meyer, Birgit 1960- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 1992
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 1992, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 98-132
Further subjects:B Protestant Church
B Superstition
B Tradition
B Christian
B People
B Religion
B Tree trunk Ethnology
B Ewe People
B Syncretism

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