Rethinking the Great Commission: Incorporation of Akan Indigenous Symbols into Christian Worship: Great Commission and Akan Symbols

dc.contributor.authorOssom-Batsa, G.
dc.contributor.authorApaah, F.
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-04T14:59:52Z
dc.date.available2019-07-04T14:59:52Z
dc.date.issued2018-07
dc.description.abstractSymbols are communicative tools with performative functions in all cultures. Apart from their decorative functions, non‐Christian symbols adopted into Christianity have had a tremendous impact on Christian life since the early times, especially in liturgical practices. Through Western missionary activities, Ghana inherited Christian biblical‐liturgical art as has been developed in the home countries of the missionaries. However, since the 1960s Adinkra symbols have been incorporated into Christian worship and theology, receiving attention within secular and religious circles because of their communicative potential. On the religious level, some churches have adopted them as logos or incorporated them into architectural designs and liturgical art. This paper seeks to investigate what motivates various missions to choose particular Adinkra symbol(s) and what they hope to achieve with them. Furthermore, it attempts a theological reflection on the communicative potential of artefacts in Ghanaian Christianity as a response to the “Great Commission. “We approach the subject from a historical, contextual, and theological perspective, using selected Roman Catholic and Methodist churches in Ghana as case studies. The study employed unstructured in‐depth interviews and photo elicitations to trace the relationship between visual arts and religion, with particular emphasis on Christian visual arts and how they have informed Christianity in Ghana.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1111/irom.12221
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/31258
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Review of Missionen_US
dc.subjectAdinkraen_US
dc.subjectIncorporationen_US
dc.subjectMissionen_US
dc.subjectReligiousen_US
dc.subjectSymbolsen_US
dc.subjectTheologicalen_US
dc.titleRethinking the Great Commission: Incorporation of Akan Indigenous Symbols into Christian Worship: Great Commission and Akan Symbolsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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