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Looking Back, Moving Forward Girish Daswani

Looking Back, Moving Forward By Girish Daswani

Looking Back, Moving Forward by Girish Daswani


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Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the Ghanaian diaspora in London.

Looking Back, Moving Forward Summary

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost by Girish Daswani

How do Ghanaian Pentecostals resolve the contradictions of their own faith while remaining faithful to their religious identity? Bringing together the anthropology of Christianity and the anthropology of ethics, Girish Daswani's Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the compromises with the past that members of Ghana's Church of Pentecost make in order to remain committed Christians. Even as church members embrace the break with the past that comes from being born-again, many are less concerned with the boundaries of Christian practice than with interpersonal questions - the continuity of suffering after conversion, the causes of unhealthy relationships, the changes brought about by migration - and how to deal with them. By paying ethnographic attention to the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the Ghanaian diaspora in London, Looking Back, Moving Forward explores ethical practice as it emerges out of the questions that church members and other Ghanaian Pentecostals ask themselves.

Looking Back, Moving Forward Reviews

'An excellent contribution to the study of migrant faith, this book also has much to say about spirituality and religious practice more broadly defined.' -- Philip Jenkins Christian Century 2 October 2016 'With its vivid ethnography, Looking Back, Moving Forward offers an intimate portrait of the everyday lives of Ghanaian Pentecostals, both in Ghana and in London.' -- Anna Strhan Marginalia Review of Books - January 2016

About Girish Daswani

Girish Daswani is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Rupture and Continuity 2. Uncertainties and Dilemmas 3. Prophets and Prayer 4. Individuality and Dividuality 5. Kinship and Migration 6. African Christians in London 7. Citizens of Heaven Conclusion: The Future Will Fight Against You

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NLS9781442626584
9781442626584
1442626585
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost by Girish Daswani
New
Paperback
University of Toronto Press
2015-04-06
280
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