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Cosmologies of Mental Health: Pentecostal Prayer Camps and Indigenous knowledge of Healing Mental Illness in Ghana
Hardcover
$115.00
By Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah, Amy L. Allocco (Editor), Bettina E. Schmidt (Editor), Steven J. Sutcliffe (Editor)
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This open access book is based on a unique body of data on a hitherto understudied field of Pentecostal prayer camps and mental health in Ghana.
The book investigates and presents empirically grounded cases of persons with mental illness and how they deploy religious resources at prayer camps in Ghana in dealing with their illness. Particularly, the book explores perceived causes of mental illness and how such perceptions influence health seeking behaviours. The book illustrates how the per...
The book investigates and presents empirically grounded cases of persons with mental illness and how they deploy religious resources at prayer camps in Ghana in dealing with their illness. Particularly, the book explores perceived causes of mental illness and how such perceptions influence health seeking behaviours. The book illustrates how the per...