‘Their Children Might be Christians’

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" ‘Their Children Might be Christians’ "
Julie Jenkins

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072799
Doc. No	:	LA116428
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700666-12340109‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Julie Jenkins
Title & Author	:	‘Their Children Might be Christians’ [Article]\ Julie Jenkins
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion in Africa
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	47/2
Page No	:	190–223
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Anlo-Ewe
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Ghana
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Neo-Pentecostal Christianity
Descriptor	:	personhood
Descriptor	:	religion
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	trokosi
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700666-12340109‬