Seth Tweneboah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1425307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Tweneboah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Tweneboah |
| SIGNATURE | TWENEBOAH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Education, Winneba |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2144-7760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rastafari, Social Exclusion and Covid-19 in Ghana
The Ambivalence of Religious Freedom, Peacebuilding, and National Development in Ghana
This article explores the ambivalent role of religion in peacebuilding and national development in Ghana, using the 2021 Wesley Girls High School Ramadan controversy as a case study. It examines how religious freedom, especially for Muslim students in Christian educational institutions, intersects with institutional authority and national policy. Drawing on legal documents, media reports, and stakeholder statements, the article frames religion as…
The manipulation of spiritual capital in Ghanaian political discourse and its implications
Religion, Human Rights, and the Parliamentary Regulation of "One-Man Churches" in Ghana
On May 29, 2019, Ekow Hayford, then Member of Parliament for Mfantseman in Ghana’s central region, presented a statement on the floor of Parliament proposing the need for legislation to regulate the activities and operations of religious groups in Ghana.1 According to the statement, while Articles 21(1) and 26(1) of the Constitution of 1992 provide for freedom of worship, some pastor-prophets and churches prey on vulnerable congregants and member…
Religious Conversion, Proselytization, and the Marginalisation of Indigenous Religions in Ghana
This paper probes the intricate connection of conversion, proselytization, and the state of Ghana to achieve three overarching goals. First, it unravels how colonialism, Christianity, and Islam have historically and collectively marginalised African indigenous religions. Second, it demonstrates a clever state maneuver to continue the historic joint colonial and missionary projection of Christianity and Islam at the expense of other traditions. Th…
Religion, Law, and Politics in Ghana: Duabɔ (Imprecation) as Spiritual Justice in the Public Sphere
This paper examines the reasons for and consequences of the resort to traditional spiritual justice in spite of increasing awareness of state civil law structures. The paper helps us theorise on how economic disputes resulting from lack of effective legal enforcement yields itself easily to the deployment of spiritual justice. The significance of this study is that it contributes perspectives into issues of law and political modernisation and the…
Akan Deities as Agents of Conflict Resolution Mechanism in Ghana: Promises and Pitfalls
The chapter takes an integrative look at a largely neglected field of conflict resolution mechanism in Ghana: the extent to which belief in traditional deities both enhance and undercut justice delivery systems in society. It contends that through duabɔ (imprecation) there is an enduring influence of traditional deities as part of legal regulatory frameworks in society. The chapter, thus, uncovers the hidden resources of traditional deities as us…
African Traditional Religion and Trans-Saharan Migration from Ghana: The Role of Nkoranza Deities in Youth Migration to Libya
This paper interrogates an unexamined component of the religion-migration nexus in Ghana. Using African Traditional Religion as a case in point, the paper examines the function shrines play in sustaining youth migration to Libya and across the Mediterranean to Europe. The paper relies on interviews and fieldtrips to migrant sending communities in the Nkoranza area of the Bono East region of central Ghana. The paper gives an account of the daily r…
Biting the hand that feeds them? The case of Ghanaian Pentecostal discourse on ‘breaking from the past’”
Ghanaian Pentecostal pastor-prophets encourage their members to break away from the ancestral past which is projected as a vessel of demonic operations responsible for mishaps in society. Yet traditional priestly actors have challenged the notion that indigenous religious imaginations and ritual spaces are a crucial platform where power and recognition are contested by some pastor-prophets. As such, these traditional priests have particularly war…
Religion, Law, Politics and the State in Africa: Applying Legal Pluralism in Ghana
Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity. It aims to explore legal, cultural and moral tensions created by overlapping loci of authority (state actors, traditional leaders and religious functionaries). It contends that religion can function as an impediment to Ghana’s sec…
Pentecostalism, the Media, and the State: Politicization of Indigenous Customary Systems in Ghana
This paper interrogates the interrelationships between the state, pentecostalism, and the media in contemporary Ghana. It examines how pentecostal ideological and practical approach to the indigenous field, its symbolisms and ritual practices, latently aids contemporary Ghana to negotiate between protecting indigenous normative systems and meeting external obligations under international human rights law. It highlights the often misrecognized sig…
A Clash of Legal Norms
This paper explores the reasons for proscribed sanctions and their effects on contemporary Ghana. I contend that the sacred office of the Ghanaian chief, which is legitimated by spiritual and legal norms, plays an ambivalent role in Ghana’s legal and political modernization. Using banishment as a case study, the paper pays attentions to how the continued use of proscribed sanctions, among other chiefly actions, raises an ambivalent challenge to G…
Pentecostalism, Witchdemonic Accusations, and Symbolic Violence in Ghana
The increasing numerical strength of Ghanaian pentecostalism and the movement’s involvement in filling in the socioeconomic vacuum in society means that the position of the pastor-prophet cannot be a neglected one. Yet, the extent to which human rights violations are involved in the activities of some of these pastor-prophets has raised some concerns. This article will focus on the often violent treatment of alleged witches during exorcism and ex…
The Sacred Nature of the Akan Chief and its Implications for Tradition, Modernity and Religious Human Rights in Ghana
This study explored the interface between the abuses inherent in the sacred nature of the Akan (a Ghanaian ethnic group) Chief and international human rights laws. It argued that the sacred basis of Akan Chieftaincy, which empowers and legitimizes Akan Chiefs, also leads to them imposing restrictions on the rights of their subjects. The study examined the implications of these restrictions in the light of a rapidly modernizing, thoroughly globali…
African Traditional Religion and Trans-Saharan Migration from Ghana: The Role of Nkoranza Deities in Youth Migration to Libya
This paper interrogates an unexamined component of the religion-migration nexus in Ghana. Using African Traditional Religion as a case in point, the paper examines the function shrines play in sustaining youth migration to Libya and across the Mediterranean to Europe. The paper relies on interviews and fieldtrips to migrant sending communities in the Nkoranza area of the Bono East region of central Ghana. The paper gives an account of the daily r…
Pentecostalism, Witchdemonic Accusations, and Symbolic Violence in Ghana
The increasing numerical strength of Ghanaian pentecostalism and the movement’s involvement in filling in the socioeconomic vacuum in society means that the position of the pastor-prophet cannot be a neglected one. Yet, the extent to which human rights violations are involved in the activities of some of these pastor-prophets has raised some concerns. This article will focus on the often violent treatment of alleged witches during exorcism and ex…
Religious Conversion, Proselytization, and the Marginalisation of Indigenous Religions in Ghana
This paper probes the intricate connection of conversion, proselytization, and the state of Ghana to achieve three overarching goals. First, it unravels how colonialism, Christianity, and Islam have historically and collectively marginalised African indigenous religions. Second, it demonstrates a clever state maneuver to continue the historic joint colonial and missionary projection of Christianity and Islam at the expense of other traditions. Th…
Biting the hand that feeds them? The case of Ghanaian Pentecostal discourse on ‘breaking from the past’”
Ghanaian Pentecostal pastor-prophets encourage their members to break away from the ancestral past which is projected as a vessel of demonic operations responsible for mishaps in society. Yet traditional priestly actors have challenged the notion that indigenous religious imaginations and ritual spaces are a crucial platform where power and recognition are contested by some pastor-prophets. As such, these traditional priests have particularly war…
The Sacred Nature of the Akan Chief and its Implications for Tradition, Modernity and Religious Human Rights in Ghana
This study explored the interface between the abuses inherent in the sacred nature of the Akan (a Ghanaian ethnic group) Chief and international human rights laws. It argued that the sacred basis of Akan Chieftaincy, which empowers and legitimizes Akan Chiefs, also leads to them imposing restrictions on the rights of their subjects. The study examined the implications of these restrictions in the light of a rapidly modernizing, thoroughly globali…
The Sacred Nature of the Akan Chief and its Implications for Tradition, Modernity and Religious Human Rights in Ghana
This study explored the interface between the abuses inherent in the sacred nature of the Akan (a Ghanaian ethnic group) Chief and international human rights laws. It argued that the sacred basis of Akan Chieftaincy, which empowers and legitimizes Akan Chiefs, also leads to them imposing restrictions on the rights of their subjects. The study examined the implications of these restrictions in the light of a rapidly modernizing, thoroughly globali…
Pentecostalism, Witchdemonic Accusations, and Symbolic Violence in Ghana
The increasing numerical strength of Ghanaian pentecostalism and the movement’s involvement in filling in the socioeconomic vacuum in society means that the position of the pastor-prophet cannot be a neglected one. Yet, the extent to which human rights violations are involved in the activities of some of these pastor-prophets has raised some concerns. This article will focus on the often violent treatment of alleged witches during exorcism and ex…
A Clash of Legal Norms
This paper explores the reasons for proscribed sanctions and their effects on contemporary Ghana. I contend that the sacred office of the Ghanaian chief, which is legitimated by spiritual and legal norms, plays an ambivalent role in Ghana’s legal and political modernization. Using banishment as a case study, the paper pays attentions to how the continued use of proscribed sanctions, among other chiefly actions, raises an ambivalent challenge to G…
Religion, Law, Politics and the State in Africa: Applying Legal Pluralism in Ghana
Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity. It aims to explore legal, cultural and moral tensions created by overlapping loci of authority (state actors, traditional leaders and religious functionaries). It contends that religion can function as an impediment to Ghana’s sec…
Pentecostalism, the Media, and the State: Politicization of Indigenous Customary Systems in Ghana
This paper interrogates the interrelationships between the state, pentecostalism, and the media in contemporary Ghana. It examines how pentecostal ideological and practical approach to the indigenous field, its symbolisms and ritual practices, latently aids contemporary Ghana to negotiate between protecting indigenous normative systems and meeting external obligations under international human rights law. It highlights the often misrecognized sig…
Religion, Law, and Politics in Ghana: Duabɔ (Imprecation) as Spiritual Justice in the Public Sphere
This paper examines the reasons for and consequences of the resort to traditional spiritual justice in spite of increasing awareness of state civil law structures. The paper helps us theorise on how economic disputes resulting from lack of effective legal enforcement yields itself easily to the deployment of spiritual justice. The significance of this study is that it contributes perspectives into issues of law and political modernisation and the…
Akan Deities as Agents of Conflict Resolution Mechanism in Ghana: Promises and Pitfalls
The chapter takes an integrative look at a largely neglected field of conflict resolution mechanism in Ghana: the extent to which belief in traditional deities both enhance and undercut justice delivery systems in society. It contends that through duabɔ (imprecation) there is an enduring influence of traditional deities as part of legal regulatory frameworks in society. The chapter, thus, uncovers the hidden resources of traditional deities as us…
African Traditional Religion and Trans-Saharan Migration from Ghana: The Role of Nkoranza Deities in Youth Migration to Libya
This paper interrogates an unexamined component of the religion-migration nexus in Ghana. Using African Traditional Religion as a case in point, the paper examines the function shrines play in sustaining youth migration to Libya and across the Mediterranean to Europe. The paper relies on interviews and fieldtrips to migrant sending communities in the Nkoranza area of the Bono East region of central Ghana. The paper gives an account of the daily r…
Biting the hand that feeds them? The case of Ghanaian Pentecostal discourse on ‘breaking from the past’”
Ghanaian Pentecostal pastor-prophets encourage their members to break away from the ancestral past which is projected as a vessel of demonic operations responsible for mishaps in society. Yet traditional priestly actors have challenged the notion that indigenous religious imaginations and ritual spaces are a crucial platform where power and recognition are contested by some pastor-prophets. As such, these traditional priests have particularly war…
Religion, Human Rights, and the Parliamentary Regulation of "One-Man Churches" in Ghana
On May 29, 2019, Ekow Hayford, then Member of Parliament for Mfantseman in Ghana’s central region, presented a statement on the floor of Parliament proposing the need for legislation to regulate the activities and operations of religious groups in Ghana.1 According to the statement, while Articles 21(1) and 26(1) of the Constitution of 1992 provide for freedom of worship, some pastor-prophets and churches prey on vulnerable congregants and member…
Religious Conversion, Proselytization, and the Marginalisation of Indigenous Religions in Ghana
This paper probes the intricate connection of conversion, proselytization, and the state of Ghana to achieve three overarching goals. First, it unravels how colonialism, Christianity, and Islam have historically and collectively marginalised African indigenous religions. Second, it demonstrates a clever state maneuver to continue the historic joint colonial and missionary projection of Christianity and Islam at the expense of other traditions. Th…
The Ambivalence of Religious Freedom, Peacebuilding, and National Development in Ghana
This article explores the ambivalent role of religion in peacebuilding and national development in Ghana, using the 2021 Wesley Girls High School Ramadan controversy as a case study. It examines how religious freedom, especially for Muslim students in Christian educational institutions, intersects with institutional authority and national policy. Drawing on legal documents, media reports, and stakeholder statements, the article frames religion as…
The manipulation of spiritual capital in Ghanaian political discourse and its implications
Rastafari, Social Exclusion and Covid-19 in Ghana
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