The modernity/coloniality of love

Individualist lifeways and charismatic christianity in Ghanaian worlds

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ID10220541
AutoresAnnabella Osei-Tutu (0000-0001-9407-8770, Department of Psychology University of Ghana Accra Ghana, autor correspondente), G Adams (0000-0002-9487-6999, Department of Psychology University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas USA), Darlingtina Esiaka (0000-0001-9214-5677, Department of Psychology University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas USA), Vivian A Dzokoto (0000-0002-7668-9962, Department of African American Studies Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond Virginia USA), Adjeiwa Akosua Affram (0000-0002-6990-103X, Department of Psychology University of Ghana Accra Ghana)
Ano2022
Volume78
Fascículo1
Páginas183-208
Data de publicação2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/josi.12432
OpenAlexW3138589139
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas94

A manifestation of coloniality in psychological science concerns the modern individualist lifeways that inform mainstream research. We report results of a multi‐method research project that investigated implications of these ways of being for the experience of love in Ghanaian settings. In particular, we investigated the hypothesis that engagement with Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCCs)—an important carrier of individualist lifeways in many West African settings—would be associated with a growth orientation to love as a means for mutual self‐expansion and fulfillment. In Study 1 ( n = 61), growth themes and a conception of love as feeling were more evident, but sustainability themes and a conception of love as doing less evident, in interview responses of participants who reported engagement with PCCs versus Traditional Western Mission Churches (TWMCs). In Study 2 ( n = 1120), family obligation, relationship harmony, and (among participants who reported daily church attendance) perception of a social norm to prioritize mother over spouse were weaker for members of PCCs than TWMCs. Results help to reveal the colonial dark side of the modern individualist lifeways that mainstream research tends to regard as a just‐natural standard

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