The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars
Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the innerworkings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of “traditi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | Undetermined language |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Durham
Duke University Press
2025
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Series/Journal: | Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
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| Further subjects: | B
Social and cultural anthropology
B Religion and beliefs B Place qualifiers B Society and culture: general B Africa B Anthropology B Ghana B Sub-Saharan Africa B Social groups, communities and identities B Philosophy and Religion B West Africa B Society and Social Sciences B Ethnic Studies B Sociology and anthropology |
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| Rights Information: | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| Summary: | Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the innerworkings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of “traditional religions” to African urbanity |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (217 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4780-2819-2 978-1-4780-3141-3 978-1-4780-6040-6 978-1-4780-9429-6 |
| Access: | Open Access |
