‘You Can Be a Citizen of Mars: ‘Token of Passports’ Rituals, Overseas Travels, and Ghana’s Neo-Pentecostal Spaces
This paper examines how a local Ghanaian Pentecostal church mediates global mobility and structural immigration barriers for alienated persons through ritual performance. Imperial alienating immigration processes for ‘undesired’ persons on the move to the Global North engender a religious ritual per...
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| Language: | English |
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2025
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2025, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 581-617 |
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Ghanaian Pentecostals
B Power Cathedral B Token of Passports B Signs and Tokens rituals B Migrations B citizen of Mars |
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