This presentation is concerned with how return migrants articulate and experience belonging within faith communities in Accra. Focusing on Christian women, the paper investigates how interlocutors traverse ‘local’ and ‘global’ forms of Pentecostal/Charismatic practice in Accra. In it, I discuss their connection to Hope City Church, parsing out the relationships between ideas of home, a global Pentecostal community, and their transnational lives. What kinds of connections do they make between themselves as transnational, return migrants and the forms of Pentecostal practices they gravitate towards? In what ways does Hope City’s internationalism – one that is explained by interlocutors as one that exists outside the Ghanaian archetype of Pentecostalism – produce certain discourses about belonging in Ghana?

Last modified

• 09/18/2020

Creator

• Debbie Frempong

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-xv92-0d06

Subject

• Christianity
• Gender identity

Keyword

• return migration
• belonging
• gender
• christianity

Date created

• 2020

Resource type

• Video

Rights statement

• In Copyright