How Long to Read Healing and Power in Ghana

How Long Does it Take to Read Healing and Power in Ghana?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 50 minutes to read Healing and Power in Ghana by Lecturer Paul Glen Grant

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In nineteenth-century Ghana, regional warfare rooted in profound social and economic transformations led thousands of displaced people to seek refuge in the small mountain kingdom of Akuapem. There they encountered missionaries from Germany whose message of sin and forgiveness struck many of these newcomers as irrelevant to their needs. However, together with Akuapem's natives, these newcomers began reformulating Christianity as a ritual tool for social and physical healing, as well as power, in a dangerous spiritual and human world. The result was Ghana's oldest African-initiated variant of Christianity: a homegrown expression of unbroken moral, political, and religious priorities. Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast in the middle of the nineteenth century, Healing and Power in Ghana identifies patterns of indigenous reception, rejection, and reformulation of what had initially arrived, centuries earlier, as a European trade religion. Paul Grant draws on a mixture of European and indigenous sources in several languages, building on recent scholarship in world Christianity to address the question of conversion through the lens of the indigenous moral imagination. This approach considers, among other things, the conditions in which Akuapem locals and newly arrived displaced persons might find Christianity useful or applicable to their needs. This is no traditional history of the European-African religious encounter. Ghanian Christians identified the missionaries according to preexisting political and religious categories--as a new class of shrine priests. They resolved their own social crises in ways the missionaries were unable to understand. In effect, Christianity became an indigenous religion years before indigenous people converted in any appreciable numbers. By foregrounding the sacrificial idiom shared by locals, missionaries, and native thinkers, Healing and Power in Ghana presents a new model of scholarship for both West African history and world Christianity. --Brian Stanley, Professor of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh

How long is Healing and Power in Ghana?

Healing and Power in Ghana by Lecturer Paul Glen Grant is 350 pages long, and a total of 87,500 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Healing and Power in Ghana Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 58 minutes to read Healing and Power in Ghana aloud.

What Reading Level is Healing and Power in Ghana?

Healing and Power in Ghana is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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