Title:	African Charismatics
Authors:	Rev. Dr Emmanuel Y. Lartey J. Kwabena, Asamoah-Gyadu Paul Gifford
Keywords:	Pentecostals—Ghana—History
Issue Date:	2005
Publisher:	Brill
Description:	The material in this book formed the substance of my Ph.D. thesis presented to the University of Birmingham, UK, in March 2000. The general recession of Christianity in the modern West, particularly Western Europe, has coincided with the accession of the faith in the Southern continents, especially Africa south of the Sahara. This study was inspired partly by a desire to illustrate an aspect of the nature and manifestation of the shifting centre of gravity of Christianity in the twentieth century from the North to the South. Pentecostal Christianity, the religion of the Holy Spirit, it is argued, represents the most concrete evidence of the phenomenal expansion of Christianity in African countries like Ghana. In Ghana today, as elsewhere around the African continent, multitudinous independent indigenous Pentecostal and autochthonous Charismatic movements that developed in response to the staid denominationalism of historic mission Christianity have come to represent local manifestations of a global phenomenon. The African independent churches and Charismatic movements studied in this volume, like most, if not all, new religious movements, can be very volatile in nature. These are highly eclectic movements that are changing all the time and since this research was concluded significant changes have oc
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9427
ISBN:	90-04-14089-1
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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