Divine Rulers in a Secular State
Abstract
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.
Keywords
secularization; politics; africa; divine kingship; ghana; religion; Ashanti Empire; Canon Production Printing; Christianity; Colonialism; Kumasi; PentecostalismDOI
10.21435/sfa.3ISBN
9789522226822, 9789522227690, 9789522227930OCN
972078628Publisher
Finnish Literature Society / SKSPublication date and place
Helsinki, 2016Series
Studia Fennica Anthropologica, 3Classification
Africa
Ghana
Religion and politics
Christianity
Religious mission and Religious Conversion
Social and cultural anthropology
Political leaders and leadership