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Hindu Gods in West Africa - 9789004244887

Un libro in lingua di Wuaku Albert Kafui edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2013

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Expanding his 2004 PhD dissertation at the University of Toronto, Wuaku (African and African diaspora religion, Florida International U., Miami) explores Ghana's Hindu religious experience in the context of two Hindu worshiping communities located in the country's capital Accra: the Hindu Monastery of Africa and the Sri Radha Govinda Temple. He explains the historical events and socio-cultural processes that occasioned the transfer of Hindu beliefs and practices from India to Ghana at the tail-end of the British colonial rule of the two societies. Then he traces Hinduism through the transition of the Gold Coast to the modern state of Ghana in 1957, the socio-economic and political chaos of the 1970s and 1980s, and recent changes due to globalization. He includes 20 color photographs. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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