‘Returning to our Spiritual Roots’:

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" ‘Returning to our Spiritual Roots’: "
Abamfo Ofori Atiemo

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072805
Doc. No	:	LA116434
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700666-12340120‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Abamfo Ofori Atiemo
Title & Author	:	‘Returning to our Spiritual Roots’: [Article] : African Hindus in Ghana Negotiating Religious Space and Identity\ Abamfo Ofori Atiemo
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion in Africa
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	47/3-4
Page No	:	405–437
Abstract	:	This paper examines the phenomenon of the ‘African Hindu’ in the context of the discussions on ‘transnational Hinduism’. I also report on how these African Hindus resort to a reinterpretation of the history of their Ghanaian indigenous (traditional) religion and culture in their attempt to find religious space in the almost-choked religious environment of Ghana, and also how they attempt to negotiate their new religious identity in relation to their identity as Africans (Ghanaians). I conclude with a prognosis of the form that Hinduism is likely to assume in the near future on Ghanaian soil as its African converts try to live their faith in the context of their local culture.
Descriptor	:	African Hindus
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	conversion
Descriptor	:	Ghana
Descriptor	:	Hinduism
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	identity
Descriptor	:	introduction
Descriptor	:	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	pluralism
Descriptor	:	Religion
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	space
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700666-12340120‬