'Make a Complete Break with the past.' Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse

Meyer, Birgit

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“…Some Christians who appear powerful in operating spiritual gifts might still have this problem of being harassed by demons. Meyer (1998) makes a point that although the born again is not fully possessed with demons; there are some areas of his/her life that may be controlled by demons. It means deliverance from curses or demonic harassment must be necessarily pursued in order for the believer to enjoy long life, vitality, vigour, health, peace and security.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Evil Spirits Curses and Deliverancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meyer (1998) maintains that some believers suffer from ancestral curses. That is, the past life of parents, grandparents and great grandparents may have negative effects on some believers.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Evil Spirits Curses and Deliverancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the use of certain ritual objects such as talisman, rings, black powder, the sixth, seventh, ninth and tenth books of Moses, pendulums, candles, incense, amulets, and indulging in practices such as ritual bathing, invoking spirits, casting spells and charms to control the will of other people can all pave the way for demonic control (Meyer 1998). …”

Section: Conceptualizing Evil Spirits Curses and Deliverancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meyer (1998) gives a solid exposition on this subject when he intimates that salvation is an individual affair and one may have to renounce these forces personally in order to break the covenant with Satan; even if a person does it, he or she may be visited by Satan over and over again because the devil refuses to let his people turn away from him easily. Thus, coming out from ancestral influence, witchcraft and curses is a real business.…”

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Leveraging the Deliverance Phenomenon: Penteco/Charismatic Vista

Asamoah

2016

J Relig Health

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This article reflects on the deliverance concept within Classical Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism against historical and contemporary considerations. The research design combined ethnography and case study. Participant observation and in-depth interviews were used for data collection. Findings include: overstretched demonic mentality; the notion that the Penteco/Charismatic believer cannot be possessed but could be harassed by demons; and dehumanizing situations inherent in deliverance practice. It is recommended that sanity, care and collaboration be established amongst deliverance practitioners, psychologists, psychiatrists, professional counsellors as well as other business experts to ensure a holistic deliverance practice and also to enhance the dignity and value of the deliverance ministry in Ghana and Africa at large.

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Section: Conceptualizing Evil Spirits Curses and Deliverancementioning

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Section: Conceptualizing Evil Spirits Curses and Deliverancementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Leveraging the Deliverance Phenomenon: Penteco/Charismatic Vista

Asamoah

2016

J Relig Health

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“…Building on the notion of conversion as 'rupture', a term increasingly employed in contemporary anthropological studies of religious change, the discussion will particularly focus on the impact of changing faith on individuals' social relationships. Converts' attempt to 'make a complete break with the past', to borrow Birgit Meyer's (1998) phrase, is most directly manifested in the transformation of the present. In the predominantly Catholic rural communities of Oaxaca, conversion to Protestantism often leads to the reconfiguration of the converts' social ties and loyalties.…”

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Changing Faith: The Social Costs of Protestant Conversion in Rural Oaxaca

Gross

2012

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This article discusses conversion to Protestantism in the Zapotec communities of the State of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. Conversion to Protestantism in these predominantly Catholic villages has a rupture effect on converts' relationships with their families as well as the Catholic majority. This transformation can be interpreted as a 'social cost', which influences religious choices made by individuals and the sustainability of their new religious affiliations. The cost is generally higher for native villagers than for migrants to the communities. Focusing on the adverse effects of conversion and scrutinising the choices of individuals who do not convert or who return to their previous faith contributes to a more nuanced understanding of religious change. The process is often far more complex and multi-directional at the local level than macro-level trends of rapid Protestant growth suggest.

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It is Christ or Corruption in Papua New Guinea: Bring in the Witness!

Pickles

Costa

2021

Oceania

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Endemic corruption and fervent Christianity dominate Papua New Guinea (PNG) public discourse. We draw on ethnographic material-including the emplacement of a King James V Bible in Parliamentto contextualise corruption discourse and Christian measures against corruption within evolving Papua New Guinean ideas about witnessing. Both corruption discourse and Christianity invoke a specific kind of observer: a disembodied, reliable witness capable of discerning people's intentions. Established ethnographic and linguistic data from PNG meanwhile document witnesses as imagined to be embodied, interested, lacking a privileged relationship to truth, and thus susceptible to coercion. Recasting the PNG corruption issue in terms of witnessing foregrounds a perceived cultural conflict between inclusion and duty; it also reveals how and why the Christian God was invoked-using debt and obligation rhetoric-to end corruption at the national scale.

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'Make a Complete Break with the past.' Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse

Cited by 220 publications

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Leveraging the Deliverance Phenomenon: Penteco/Charismatic Vista

Leveraging the Deliverance Phenomenon: Penteco/Charismatic Vista

Changing Faith: The Social Costs of Protestant Conversion in Rural Oaxaca

It is Christ or Corruption in Papua New Guinea: Bring in the Witness!

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