TY - BOOK AU - Kallinen, Timo AB - The divine kingship and chiefship of the Asante people of central Ghana have been undergoing a shift towards secularization since the start of the colonial era. Timo Kallinen maintains that a close examination of this transformation provides us with a better understanding of secularization processes in Ghana more broadly, and in other post-colonial societies whose historical development likewise differs from that of the modern West, and which have largely confronted secular modernity through encounters with European colonialism. roughout the volume secularization is understood as a process in modern society whereby divinity is separated from the ways in which both human society is regulated and physical nature is understood to function. DO - 10.21435/sfa.3 ID - OAPEN ID: 617153 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 972078628 KW - secularization KW - politics KW - africa KW - divine kingship KW - ghana KW - religion KW - Ashanti Empire KW - Canon Production Printing KW - Christianity KW - Colonialism KW - Kumasi KW - Pentecostalism L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8c008d16-e7a0-4362-8a1b-ec364eac1fce/617153.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32127 PB - Finnish Literature Society / SKS PP - Helsinki PY - 2016 SN - 9789522226822 SN - 9789522227690 TI - Divine Rulers in a Secular Statenull ER -