Reimagining Ghana’s cities: Perspectives from the Bible and African Indigenous Sacred Texts

Theologia Viatorum

 
 
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Title Reimagining Ghana’s cities: Perspectives from the Bible and African Indigenous Sacred Texts
 
Creator Mensah, Michael K.
 
Subject African Biblical Hermeneutics; Canonical Exegesis; Psalms; Hebrew Bible; Psalm 46; sacred texts; Adinkra; African Biblical Hermeneutics; city; Ghana; Fihankra; household
Description Africa has some of the world’s fastest-growing cities. While urbanisation could be a sign of economic growth, the expansion of these cities is often done at the expense of social and environmental concerns. This article uses the Sacred Texts Approach of African Biblical Hermeneutics in studying Psalm 46. It argues that the two-fold threats to the City of God, namely the cosmic and the human, are the same threats to the cities in Ghana.Contribution: It demonstrates how the parallel reading of Psalm 46 and the Adinkra Fihankra contributes to the re-imagination of the city as a common household, a space of cosmic and social harmony in Africa.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2025-01-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — African Biblical Hermeneutics
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/tv.v49i1.232
 
Source Theologia Viatorum; Vol 49, No 1 (2025); 9 pages 2664-2980 0378-4142
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2025 Michael K. Mensah https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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