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9781441199478

Religion and the Inculturation of Human Rights in Ghana

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    9781441199478

  • ISBN10:

    1441199470

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2013-06-13
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Summary

It has been maintained that the secular nature of modern human rights makes them incompatible with the religious orientation of African and non-Western societies. However, in view of the resilience of religion in the global and local public sphere, it is important to explore how religion can contribute to the promotion and enjoyment of human rights.

Based on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Abamfo Ofori Atiemo here establishes a convergence between human rights and local religious and cultural values in African societies. He argues that human rights represent universal 'dream values'. This allows for a cultural embedding of human rights in Ghana and other non-Western societies. He argues that 'dream values' are usually presented in religious language and proclaimed, for example, by prophets and seers or expressed in certain forms of taboo, proverbs or legal norms. He employs the concept of inculturation, adaptation of the way Church teachings are presented to non-Christian cultures, as a hermeneutical tool for developing a model to understand the encounter between universal human rights and local cultures.

Offering a new model for explaining the relation between religion and human rights, Religion and the Inculturation of Human Rights in Ghana offers a novel perspective on the links between global trends and local cultures underpinned by strong currents of religious ideas.

Author Biography

Abamfo Ofori Atiemo is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department for the Study of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon.

Table of Contents

1. Embedding Human Rights in Local Cultures: An African
Imperative \ 2. Religion and Human Rights: Linking Tradition and Modernity \ 3.
Inculturating Human Rights: The Localization of a Global Culture \ 4. Does
Ghana have a Common Culture? Exploring Historical Processes of National
Identity Construction \ 5. Locating Religion in Ghana: Exploring the Contours
of Spiritual Capital \ 6. Human Rights in Traditional Ghana: Exploring
Indigenous Ideas of Human Dignity and Rights \ 7. Human Rights in Contemporary
Ghana: Fruitions and Possibilities \ 8. Translating Human Rights in Ghana:
Rooting a Secular Idea in a Religious Worldview \ 9. Religion and the
Inculturation of Human Rights in Ghana \ Bibliography \ Index

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