This article examines the ritual specialists and initiates of the three Adzima shrines in the southeastern Volta Region of Ghana and their criticism of Christianity, particularly Neo-Pentecostalist discourse that encourages adherents to sever lineage-based ties to deities and ancestors. The influence of Christianity is an issue that the Adzima shrine ritual specialists deal with on a regular basis since different types of people are drawn into hierarchical relationships with the Adzima deities through the fiasidiwo initiates. The Adzima ritual specialists have to manage shifting perspectives on the appropriate relationship between persons embedded in lineage structures and with deities, which could undermine the meanings attributed to the fiasidiwo and potentially threaten the initiates' livelihoods.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2017
توصيف ظاهري
190-223
عنوان
Journal of Religion in Africa
شماره جلد
47/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0666
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Anlo-Ewe
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Ghana
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Neo-Pentecostal Christianity
اصطلاح موضوعی
personhood
اصطلاح موضوعی
religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
trokosi
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