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Journal articles on the topic "Methodist Church Ghana"

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Fumanti, Mattia. "“Virtuous Citizenship”:Ethnicity and Encapsulation among Akan-Speaking Ghanaian Methodists in London." African Diaspora 3, no. 1 (2010): 12–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187254610x505655.

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Abstract Akan-speaking Methodists in London make sense of their diasporic experience by claiming ‘virtuous’ citizenship. Regardless of their legal and formal status, they feel themselves to be citizens of Britain as Methodists, workers and law-abiding subjects. Active membership in the British Methodist church, conceived as an English transnational polity extending to Ghana, allows for this alternative construction, rooted in Methodist Christian ideology of universal and selfless love, and the Akan concept of tema ‐ empathy for the pain of others, expressed in moral and material obligations to humanity at large, and family or fellowship members. Encapsulation in ethnically exclusive fellowships has become, however, highly problematic for the British Methodist Church whose internal conversation mirrors wider debates in Britain on multiculturalism and immigrant citizenship. Ghanaians themselves are increasingly aware of this critique, but for them ethnic fellowships do not imply exclusion or exclusiveness: they are the loci where people’s agency is experienced, and where they gain recognition and distinction.

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Fumanti, Mattia. "‘A Light-Hearted Bunch of Ladies’: Gendered Power and Irreverent Piety in the Ghanaian Methodist Diaspora." Africa 80, no. 2 (May 2010): 200–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2010.0202.

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This article explores the making of gendered and religious identities among a group of Ghanaian Methodist women in London by bringing to the fore the complex and irreverent ways in which the women of Susanna Wesley Mission Auxiliary (SUWMA) negotiate their recognition within the predominantly patriarchal settings of the Methodist Church. If, on the one hand, the association and its members conform to Christian values and widely accepted Ghanaian constructions of womanhood, on the other hand, flouting expectations of pious femininity, they claim a unique, elevated position within the church. Their transgressive hedonism can thus be read as a performative assertion of their claims to respect, recognition and leadership beyond the narrow parameters of gendered modesty. Many of the women are senior church leaders and respected members of the diaspora. All are successful professional career women and economically independent. Their association is simultaneously about promoting the Christian faith while being recognized as successful, cosmopolitan, glamorous middle-class women. It is this duality which the present article highlights by showing how members of the association negotiate and construct their subjectivities both within the Methodist Church and the Ghanaian diaspora, while they also negotiate their relationship with the Methodist Church in Ghana.

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Yalley, Doris Ekua. "Pilgrim Sites in the Methodist Church Ghana and the Concept of Communitas." Teologia i Człowiek 58, no. 2 (August 5, 2022): 113–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/ticz.2022.014.

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The focus of this paper, the impact of the institutionalized pilgrimages of the Methodist Church Ghana (MCG), reckoned as a “Communitas” experience, affords Church Members an avenue for diverse religious experiences. Focus group discussions, interviews and participant observation were used to collect primary data from 134 respondents. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings revealed that visitors at the pilgrim sites experience healing, transformation and bonding, among other things. The communitas experiences have far reaching effects, but there is a need for education on the Church’s accepted practices at the pilgrim sites.

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Botchway, De-Valera N. Y. M. "Jemisimiham Jehu Appiah." Social Sciences and Missions 30, no. 3-4 (2017): 298–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03003011.

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In the Gold Coast, now Ghana, J.W.E. Appiah, a teacher-catechist, left the missionary-founded Methodist Church for opposing his Afrocentric healing and preaching activities and founded the Musama Disco Christo Church in the 1920s. He then took on the prophetic name Jemisimiham Jehu Appiah. He wrote his philosophies to validate an Afrocentric church in the indigenous Fante language. His Church, an African anti-colonialist/anti-colonial establishment, is alive; yet his untranslated writings have remained in obscurity. This study provides a biographical view of Appiah. It translates his writings and interrogates their inner logic as liberation theology that rationalised the salvaging of certain indigenous mores through Afrocentric Christianity to promote a Black Nationalist cultural awareness.

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Koepping, Elizabeth. "Spousal Violence among Christians: Taiwan, South Australia and Ghana." Studies in World Christianity 19, no. 3 (December 2013): 252–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2013.0060.

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Local, often unconscious, understanding of male and female informs people's views irrespective of the religious ideology of (for Christians) the imago dei. This affects church teaching about and dealings with spousal violence, usually against wives, and can be an indicator of the failure of contextualising, from Edinburgh to Tonga and Seoul to Accra, actually to challenge context and ‘speak the Word of God’ rather than of elite-defined culture. In examining five denominations (Assembly of God, Methodist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, True Jesus Church) in Ghana, South Australia and Taiwan, ecclesial attitudes to divorce are shown to have a crucial effect on an abused woman's decision regarding the marriage, especially where stated clerical practice differs from precept. Adding that to the effects of church teaching, the side-lining of pressure and support groups and the common failure of churches to censure spousal violence of pastors, leads the writer to suggest that any prophetic voice is strangled by shameful culture-bound collusion.

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Asimpi, Kofi. "Book Review: Genuinely Ghanaian: A History of the Methodist Church, Ghana, 1961–2000." Missiology: An International Review 39, no. 2 (April 2011): 255–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182961103900224.

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Mensah, Ben K. Agyei. "Accountability and internal control in religious organisations: a study of Methodist church Ghana." African J. of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 5, no. 2 (2016): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ajaaf.2016.078302.

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Pritchard, John. "Parallel Lives." Holiness 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 71–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2021-0009.

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Abstract A comparative study of William Wadé Harris, 1865–1929, and Apolo Kivebulaya, 1865–1932. The Liberian Harris’s short evangelistic tour of the Ivory Coast and western Gold Coast, 1913–1915, laid the foundations of contemporary Methodism, Catholicism, and the independent Harrist Church in Côte d’Ivoire and Church of the Twelve Apostles and others in Ghana. The Ugandan Anglican priest Kivebulaya ministered in the kingdom of Toro in western Uganda, 1895–1915, and in northeast Congo, 1915–1933, and is acclaimed as the founder of the Anglican Church in the Congo.

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Adubofour, Samuel B., and Hosei Osei. "Renewal and Revivalism in Ghanaian Methodism: The Catalytic Role of Prayer Fellowships." E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, November 16, 2020, 374–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.38159/erats.2020114.

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Branded prayer programmes have taken centre stage in contemporary Ghanaian Christianity, and Methodism in Ghana has its fair share. The origins of these spiritual activities are nebulous. This study investigates the historical roots of the contemporary revival and renewal programmes in Methodist Church Ghana. Through historical and phenomenological research approach, the study highlights the catalytic role played by the twentieth-century prayer fellowships, which functioned as fringe groups in the Church. A re-visioning of John Wesley as a Pentecostal fore-bearer of the Christian faith constitutes an innovative attempt at situating the charismatic renewal movement in Ghana within historic Methodism. The study evinces the critical function of the laity as agents of revival and renewal of spirituality in the Church. Essentially, through the prayer fellowships, the ministry of the Methodist Church is democratised, and clericalism neutralised. The transformation of the prayer fellowship movement into the Methodist Prayer and Renewal Programme (M.P.R.P.) facilitated the formalisation, institutionalisation and regulation of the emergent charismatic movement into a "Connexional" (i.e. nationwide) Methodist activity. What makes the M.P.R.P. relevant is its dynamic response to the African worldview and existential realities of the participants. Keywords: Prayer Fellowships, Methodist Church, Renewal, Programmes, Pentecostal

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Boaheng, Isaac. "A Theological Analysis of the Hymn “Teaching Everyone To Live Like Christ”." E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, April 26, 2021, 32–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2021241.

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This article is a theological analysis of the hymn, “Teaching Everyone to live like Christ,” written in support of the 2020/2021 theme of Methodist Church Ghana (MCG). The hymn emerged from the author’s pastoral and theological analysis of the MCG’s theme, “Discipleship: Teaching everyone to live like Christ” (Col. 1:28-29). The hymn touches on two key functions of the universal Church, namely, mission and nurturing of believers. The author brings out the message embedded in the hymn through an expository study of the lyrics together with secondary sources such as books, articles, and others. The paper contends that the survival of the Christian Church now and in the years to come depends on effective disciple-making, which places high emphasis on the teaching ministry. Keywords: Hymn, Christ, Teaching, Church, Perfect, Mature.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Methodist Church Ghana"

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Asare-Kusi, Emmanuel K. "The holistic mission of the church in northern Ghana a case study of the Methodist Church Ghana /." 24-page ProQuest preview, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1375508141&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=14&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1220029471&clientId=10355.

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Sims, Kirk Stephens. "Dynamics of international mission in the Methodist Church Ghana." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2016. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/21645/.

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Christianity is currently coming to terms with the demographic shift of now being primarily a Southern church, and mission is emanating out of its new heartlands. In recent generations, it has not been uncommon to interpret international mission from places like Africa through the paradigmatic thinking of the modern missionary movement. However, missiologists have begun to take note of the ways of thinking in the majority world. Important to missiological conceptualisation of many in the majority world is the role of migration, and it offers perspectives into what may very well be an unfolding mission paradigm. As a mainline church with strong roots in Ghana, the Methodist Church Ghana gives insights into how a church in a worldwide communion both understands and navigates mission on the world stage. This thesis explores the conceptualisation of international mission in the Methodist Church Ghana. It ascertains the priority the Methodist Church Ghana places on international mission, and it gives identification to the ways in which international mission is conducted. As demonstrated in the semi-structured interviews, the Methodist Church Ghana has a favourable view of its international mission engagement and the direction with which its mission is headed to in the future. Based on the cultural values of communal responsibility, it employs a missional church ecclesiology as mission occurs collectively through the modality. As its members migrate to lands beyond Ghana with different Methodist narratives, it must negotiate seemingly paradoxical perspectives as it belongs to a larger world communion and lives out its evangelical ‘world parish’ theology. Through migration and the expressions of mission by and amongst its diaspora communities, differentiating models for interpreting diaspora mission can be identified in the Methodist Church Ghana.

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Sims, Kirk [Verfasser]. "Dynamics of international mission in the Methodist Church Ghana / Kirk Sims." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1173660690/34.

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Asante-Danquah, Eric. "Pursuing discipleship for church growth: a practical theological study about the relational dynamics of pastoral leadership in three circuits of the Accra Diocese of the Methodist Church Ghana." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27348.

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Relational discipleship is found to hold a great potential for church growth. The Methodist Church Ghana uses Small Groups, referred to in the Methodist tradition as the Bible Class as effective tool for relational discipleship for church growth. Bible Class has been used from the inception of the church for exponential growth of the church. However, the rate of growth in recent years have been below targets. This study explored the factors affecting the positive outcomes of the utilization of the Bible Class meetings as effective tool for relational discipleship and for church growth. This study explored the participants’ knowledge and use of the structural arrangements put in place to help pastors and leaders to foster relational discipleship towards church growth (the numerical and spiritual growth and commitment of the church members); and the leadership and discipleship styles employed by the pastors and class leaders in pursuance of the goal of the church. Five (5) Societies in the Accra Diocese of the Methodist Church Ghana located in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, were involved in the study. Mixed Method Research that combined both qualitative (in-depth interviews and Focus Groups) and quantitative (structured questionnaires) research methodologies were used to explore the perspectives about the structural arrangements put in place to help pastors and leaders to foster relational discipleship, leadership/discipleship styles of the leaders; the benefit and usefulness of the Bible Class as a relational discipleship tool; their participation in church programmes and activities and the challenges they faced. The qualitative research consisted of 20 in-depth interviews and eight (8) focus groups with some church members, ministers and church leaders. The focus group discussions revealed that church members knew about the structural arrangements put in place to assist leadership of the church to foster closer relationship with their members in pursuance of discipleship. The study also revealed there were many challenges associated with the participation in the Bible Class Meetings and other church programmes and activities. The Bible Class meeting was cited as having been put in place for discipleship making and could be used to strengthen relationship between the church leadership and members. The findings from the qualitative phase were tested at the quantitative stage. The quantitative research method employed structured questionnaires administered to 650 church members, ministers and church leaders. The participants comprised 419 (64%) females and 231 (36%) males. Their ages ranged between 18 and 79 years with the majority (55%) between 18 and 40 years. The participants completed the questionnaires by themselves at the premises of their churches. The response rate was 100%. Three hypotheses were tested. The findings of the research suggest that the extent to which pastors and church leadership directly get involved in the affairs of their members with the view to making disciples and monitoring their spiritual growth influences church members’ interest in church activities and commitment to the church. It was also noted that leadership’s participation in church activities encourages members’ participation in church activities and programmes. Similarly, pastors and lay leaders who utilized the Bible Class or Small Group to build relationships with their members had greater numbers of members attending small group meetings and that pastors’ involvement makes the church members perceive class meeting as beneficial. However, only Interpersonal Leadership Style of Discipleship was positively associated with knowledge about church activities and participation in church activities and programmes. The more members know about Church activities, the greater their participation in those activities. There was no association between the other discipleship styles (e.g. serving, testimonial, intellectual) employed by leaders to foster relational discipleship. The discussions and conclusion of this study were based on these three studies (In-depth Interview, Focus Groups Discussions and the Structured Questionnaire Survey).
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Akrong, James Gbadzine. "An analysis of the church planting strategies and methods of the Ghana Baptist Convention and Mission from 1960--2000." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10392/344.

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This dissertation examines the church planting strategies and methods that were used by the Ghana Baptist Convention and the Ghana Baptist Mission between 1960 and 2000. The goal is to come up with strategies and methods that will help the convention to plant healthy and indigenous churches. Chapter 1 introduces the strategies and methods that the Ghana Baptist convention and mission have used in the attempt to plant healthy indigenous churches. The chapter discusses the level of evangelization of Ghana as outlined in the GEC 1993 Survey and touches on such issues as nominalism the 14000 unevangelized villages and towns and also the 3.2 million unevangelized northern people and other aliens in southern Ghana. Chapter 2 describes Ghana. The chapter describes the geography of Ghana and covers the history, culture, socio-political, and economic environment as well as the religious situation in Ghana. Chapter 3 discusses the history of the Baptist work in Ghana. It begins with history of Christianity in Ghana. The second and the main part of the chapter covers the history of the Ghana Baptist Mission and the Ghana Baptist convention from 1947 to the present day. Chapter 4 examines the strategies and methods that the convention and the mission have used to plant churches. It ties down the strategies and methods to various time periods that they were used. The chapter begins with the strategies and methods of church planting that have been used by evangelicals as basis of comparison. The fifth chapter evaluates and critiques the strategies and methods of church planting that the convention and the mission have used. The chapter, first of all, outlines the criteria for analyzing healthy indigenous church planting strategies and methods. The chapter then analyzes the strategies and methods of church planting that have been used by other denominations and organizations including the PCG, the Methodist Church of Ghana, the Church of Pentecost, the Deeper Life Ministry and the Miracle Life Church and COF. The last and major part of the chapter critiques the strategies and methods of church planting that the Ghana Baptist convention and mission have used. Chapter 6 covers recommendations to the Ghana Baptist convention based on the study and the conclusion. The chapter also covers suggestions for further research on issues church planting issues that were not addressed by this dissertation. It ends with the challenges that writer poses to the convention as it strives to plant healthy indigenous churches.

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Books on the topic "Methodist Church Ghana"

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Ghana Methodism today. Ghana: The Methodist University College Ghana, Trust Publishers, 2008.

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Oduyoye, Mercy Amba. Teaching and preaching: Sermons of C.K. Yamoah. Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Books Ltd., 2012.

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Genuinely Ghanaian: A postcolonial history of the Methodist Church, Ghana, 1961-2000. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2010.

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A, Mann Claude, ed. A living story: The first presiding bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Samuel Asante Antwi. Tema, Ghana: Digibooks Ghana Ltd., 2011.

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The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in public education in Ghana. Shippensburg, PA: Companion Press, 1996.

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Wesleyan heritage in Ghana: As portrayed by the addresses of Ghanaian heads of the Methodist Church Ghana to representatives sessions of conference 1962-2008. Ghana: The Methodist University College Ghana, Trust Publishers, 2008.

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Christianity, mission and ecumenism in Ghana: Essays in honour of Robert Kwasi Aboagye-Mensah BTh. MACE. PhD. (general secretary, Christian Council of Ghana, 1998-2003; presiding bishop, Methodist Church Ghana 2003-2009). Accra: Asempa Publishers, Christian Council of Ghana, 2009.

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Hugon, Anne. Un protestantisme africain au XIXe siècle: L'implantation du méthodisme en Gold Coast (Ghana), 1835-1874. Paris: Karthala, 2007.

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Hugon, Anne. Un protestantisme africain au XIXe siècle: L'implantation du méthodisme en Gold Coast (Ghana), 1835-1874. Paris: Karthala, 2007.

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Hugon, Anne. Un protestantisme africain au XIXe siècle: L'implantation du méthodisme en Gold Coast (Ghana), 1835-1874. Paris: Karthala, 2007.

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