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Translating the Devil

Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana

by Birgit Meyer

An influential anthropological study of how German missionaries and later Pentecostal churches recast Ewe deities and spirits as agents of the Devil. Meyer shows how this demonisation shaped local Christianity and its relation to traditional religion and modern life.

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