Religious innovations of chieftaincy in Ghana
Pentecostal Christianity and the complex persistence and transformation of Akan chieftaincy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299501 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Prempeh (0000-0002-5898-7886, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rec3.12426 |
| OpenAlex | W4200088627 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
Chieftaincy is an important indigenous political system in West Africa. In Ghana-based on ancestral cult-the institution has gone through and survived the major historical epochs-precolonial, colonial, and post-independence-albeit with some changes. The institution's flexibility has been a singular source of its survival. This has made it possible for Pentecostals to become indigenous chiefs. In this article, I depend on a year's ethnographic research in Ghana in 2019 and a review of literature on chieftaincy in Africa to explore how Pentecostal chiefs negotiate the complex terrain between indigenous religion and Pentecostal Christianity-as they take up chiefly office. I argue that through creative innovation and investment in social services, Pentecostal chiefs subvert chiefly rituals and also legitimize their authority. In all this, I discuss the flexibility embodied in chieftaincy and Pentecostalism
Christianity · Colonialism · Cult · Ethnography · Flexibility (engineering · Independence (probability theory · Indigenous · Institution · Management · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Religion, Society, and Development
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |