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This chapter presents the conclusions of the book. It returns to the overall discussion of the study of pastorship as a commentary on recent trajectories of religious and social change in Ghana. It is argued that the craft of pastorship represents new ways of building up status, wealth, and power that also draw on vernacular understandings of these concepts. It is argued that one-sided analytical approaches are not satisfactory in explaining the attractiveness of becoming a charismatic pastor in Kumasi. It is the conjuncture between material conditions, historic ideas of figures of authority and wealth and a new religious doctrine and practice that are in play.
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Lauterbach, K. (2017). Conclusion. In: Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power in Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33494-3_7
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