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conflict and the negotiation of religious diversity in Ghana
xviii, 334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of figures, photos -- Glossary of Ga words -- Introduction -- The ban on drumming and noisemaking in accra -- Research questions -- Some reflections on terminologies -- Religion -- Culture -- Indigenous religions -- Charismatic Christianity -- Noise -- Organisation of the chapters -- Situating the conflict -- Methodological and theoretical baselines -- Methodology and methods -- Positionality and reflexivity -- The research area -- Data collection -- Preparation and entry into the field -- Observation, participant observation -- Onlooker or participant or both?: participant observations -- Interviews -- Focus group interviews -- Document analysis -- Data processing and analyses -- Review of relevant literature -- Theoretical framework -- Boundary Making Theory (BMT) -- Protracted Social Conflict (PSC) -- The amalgamated theoretical framework -- Introducing the main actors in conflict: the Ga traditionalists and the charismatic churches in Ghana -- Meeting the Ga -- Brief history of the origin of the Ga -- Socio-political organisation of the Ga -- Ga Traditional Council (GTC) -- The Ga youth -- Ga indigenous religion -- The sources of Kpele religion -- The components of Kpele religion -- The supreme being -- Divine beings -- Ancestors -- Sacred specialists -- ... -- The pentecostal-charismatic group -- Meeting the charismatics -- The Lighthouse Chapel International (LCI) -- The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) -- Fundamental characteristics of the charismatic Churches in Ghana -- Passionate and energising liturgies -- The centrality of experience in charismatic Christianity -- Every member is a potential shepherd: priesthood of all believers? -- Communities of concerned and committed Christians -- Incessant evangelism: conversion at all cost -- Transnational orientation -- Total rupture with the past and awareness of evil -- Widespread use of mass media -- Conclusion -- Drum wars: toward charting an historical trajectory of ban-related clashes 1998-2016 -- The socio-political context of religions in Ghana -- Christianity and traditional cultures in Ghana -- Historical conflicts: some earlier encounters between Christians and traditionalists in Ghana -- The GTC versus the charismatics : a narrative of the clashes -- The first phase: 1998-2001 -- The 1999 clashes -- The 2000 clashes -- The 2001 clashes -- The second phase: 2002-2008 -- The third phase: 2009-2016 -- Conclusion -- The multiple dimensions of the conflict -- 'Us' versus 'Them': the 'religious' dimensions of the conflict -- Religious dimensions -- Religious resurgence and conflict -- Sound and sonic practices -- Religious music and performance -- Leading actors : the role of religious specialists in the clashes -- The ... and the clashes -- The charismatic leaders and the conflict -- The neo-Charismatic groups and internal pentecostal politics -- Religion, media and conflict -- Conclusion -- The drum politics: an enduring conflict -- Genesis of the conflict -- Encounters with diversity : Accra as a cosmopolitan city -- Historical background to the composition of Accra -- Land issues, the noise ban and the clashes -- Deprivation of human needs -- The role of the nation-state -- International links -- Process dynamics of the conflict -- Conclusion -- "Is Ghana governed by the law of the jungle?": religious liberties and diversity in contemporary Ghana -- Constitutional and legal contexts -- PNDC law 221: antithesis to religious liberty (Pre-1992) -- The pentecostal-charismatic case: an analysis of the legal positions -- The case of the Ga traditionalists : an analysis of the legal positions -- Between noise pollution and religious liberties: case laws -- Case one -- Case two -- Case three -- Indifferent or measured?: the approaches of state and its institutions toward the conflict -- Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) -- The Ghana police service -- The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) -- Conclusion -- Dynamic and creative religious exchanges: the relationship between the mainline historical Churches and the Ga traditional council -- The Roman Catholic Church -- Catholicism in Accra -- The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) -- The PCG in Accra -- Accounting for religious cooperation -- Modes of missionary evangelisation : historical precedents and recent events -- Theological factors and religious engineering -- Liturgical worship -- Inter-religious dialogue -- Inculturation -- Creativity for cooperation -- The downsides of the relationship : antithesis to cooperation -- Conclusion -- Understanding the complexities of the conflict : toward some conclusions -- Similarities as a source of conflict -- Sound and aural practices -- Music and performance -- The drum as a sacred instrument -- Contesting for media space : use of modern mass media -- The complexities of the post-Colonial Ghanaian State -- Becoming a minority in your 'Homeland' -- Asserting traditional authority -- Distortion of family unit -- Internal power struggle -- Multifaceted nature of the conflict -- Religious liberties in the context of diversity -- Creative exchanges in religious diversity -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendices -- List of individuals interviewed -- Focus group interviews -- Letter from traditional authorities to churches -- Press statement by the GPCC (1998) -- Joint declaration by religious groups in Ghana -- Report on managing religious conflicts in Accra -- Minutes of a meeting of all major religious bodies -- GPCC petition to the parliament of Ghana.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-310).