RT Article
T1 Consented Abuses? Analyzing Perspectives of Christian Young Adults Regarding Human Rights Concerns in Neo-Pentecostal Deliverance Practices in Ghana
JF Transformation
VO 42
IS 2
SP 144
OP 160
A1 Golo, Ben-Willie Kwaku
A1 Benyah, Francis Ethelbert Kwabena
A2 Benyah, Francis Ethelbert Kwabena
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1928053521
AB Deliverance practices have become central features of Ghanaian Pentecostalism. However, there have been human rights concerns and abuse of power regarding some of these practices. Consequently, using the theory of consumer religion, this article sought to analyze perspectives of some Christian young adults regarding some of these concerns. Findings suggest that deliverance is considered as a solution to existential problems and human rights concerns are not priorities that deliverance seekers, who are in search of solutions, are concerned about once their needs are met. The article concludes that, with popular knowledge of abuses in some of these deliverance practices and with no guarantee that one would not be abused, deliverance seekers vesting unfettered trust in pastor-prophets in these practices renders them as consenting by default to some of the abuses they are subjected to. The article contributes to the discourse on neo-Pentecostal deliverance practices in contemporary Ghana.
K1 consumer religion
K1 Human Rights
K1 Ghana
K1 deliverance practices
K1 Neo-pentecostalism
DO 10.1177/02653788241290135