‘Returning to our Spiritual Roots’: African Hindus in Ghana Negotiating Religious Space and Identity.
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 reli...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion in Africa Vol. 47; no. 3/4; pp. 405 - 438 |
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2017
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