The politics of religious sound : conflict and the negotiation of religious diversity in Ghana /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Münster, Germany :
LIT Verlag,
[2018]
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| Series: | Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ;
Bd. 86. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.