Hinduizing from the Top, Indigenizing from Below: Localizing Krishna Rituals in Southern Ghana.
This essay reports on an aspect of Ghana's emerging Hindu religious experience; the localizing of the worship of Krishna, a Hindu deity and a globally circulating emblem of spirituality, in the context of the Radha-Govinda temple community in Accra, Ghana's capital. Representing the Ghanaian portion...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion in Africa Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 403 - 429 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2009
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