Translating the Devil
Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2468225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judy Rosenthal (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 775-777 |
| Publication date | 2000-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana, Birgit Meyer, 2019 |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.2000.27.3.775 |
| OpenAlex | W2013538446 |
| Language | EN |
Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana. Birgit Meyer. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1999. ix. 265 pp., maps, tables, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Epistemology · Modernity · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
Explanation is Not the Point
Santería grand slam
Reign of Error; Or, the Case against Cognitive Cultural Relativism
Accra's Sounds and Sacred Spaces
Leveraging the Deliverance Phenomenon
Africa Since 1940
Transnational Religious Spaces
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West
The Bible Meets the Idol
Embodiment and Relationality in Religions of Africa and Its Diasporas
Religion, Anthropology of
The Eternal Return of Conversion
Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia
Scripture Study as Normal Science
Possession and Confession
Democracy Rediscovered
Das Vokabular der Moderne als Ressource im Kampf um das religiöse Feld im kolonialen Kontext
Witchcraft
Anxious Transcendence
Amphibious Subjects
Contextual Theology
The Demise of Religion
Transnationalität und Öffentlichkeit
Magic in the Postcolonial Americas
Christian missionaries on record
Magic in Common and Legal Perspectives
Early Greco-Roman Antiquity
Colonial Magic
The Ballad of the Sad Café
Reconfiguring Humanity in Amazonia
Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a Global Perspective
Pentecostal and Development Imaginaries in West Africa
Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Commodification of the gospel and the socio-economics of neo-Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity in Ghana
Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics
Marketing a new African God
The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery
Life Outside
The Social Nature of Prayer in a Church of the Unchurched
The Evil Spirits Are Always Trying to Bring You Down”
Ewe Cosmology and Spirituality
Afrika Zamani
Καὶ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν … the Lord’s Prayer (Mt 6
Τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον (Mt 6
Πάτερ, ημων ο εν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς (Mt 6
Cultural metaphors of death in some Ewe proverbs
OKH Journal, Vol. 4(1)
Healing in the Pentecostal tradition
Hector et Mokasse, ou la double nature de l’homme. Affinités suspectes et rumeurs de sorcellerie au xixe siècle (mont Cameroun, 1840-1890)
Faire le vodun
Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia
Afterword
Hybridity and Heresy
Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin
The Interpretations, Problems and Possibilities of Missionary Sources in the History of Christianity in Africa
Afterword
Occult Economies, Revisited
Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion
Demons, Devils, and Witches in Pentecostal Port Vila
Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft
Becoming Witches
Indigenous Evangelicals, Adventists, and Catholics
Forgetting Conversion
The Effectiveness of Ritual
Materializing the Self
Renewable Icons
Environmentalism and Postcolonialism
Prosperity Gospels and Enchanted Worldviews
Spiritual Flows and Obstructions
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond
Amphibious Subjects
Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life
Marketing the 'health and wealth gospel' across national borders; evidence from Brazil and the United States
African affirmations
The city as promised land
Gay rights, the devil and the end times
Who are you in this body
Appraising the Limits of Pentecostal Political Power in Nigeria
Intertextuality as a Means of Negotiating Authority, Status, and Place—Forms, Contexts, and Effects of Quotations of Christian Texts in Nineteenth-Century Missionary Correspondence from Yorùbáland
You Don't Have to Pray to Somebody in Special English
Religion and politics
On the Boundaries Between Good and Evil
Cars, the Customs Service, and Sumptuary Rule in Neoliberal Ghana
I Want More of You
An Affective Atmosphere of Religiosity
De la Bible aux jouets de Noël chez les Moundang du Tchad
Apocalyptic Diversity, Demonic Anthropology, and the Evangelical Ēthnos
Church presence and gender relations in the Wonenara valley (Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea)
Singing and Sensing the Unknown
Christianity
After rupture
Scientific capacity building and the ontologies of herbal medicine in Ghana
The perils of ‘yo‐yo’ thinking
Not You
Introduction
Christianity in Aboriginal Australia revisited
Positioning Culture within Pacific Christianities
How to make fire
“Drinking the Hot Blood of Humans”
Handling Sorcery in a State System of Law
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