Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Rupture and Continuity
2. Uncertainties and Dilemmas
3. Prophets and Prayer
4. Individuality and Dividuality
5. Kinship and Migration
6. African Christians in London
7. Citizens of Heaven
Conclusion: The Future Will Fight Against You

Promotional Information

"Looking Back, Moving Forward is exceptional because it is so rich, intimate, and soulfully concerned when it comes to the anguished subjectivity of Ghanaian Pentecostals at home and abroad in their diaspora, especially in London. Their portraits, like their artfully told personal stories, are striking." -- Richard Werbner, Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology, University of Manchester "Daswani has written a groundbreaking account of the way people live out the task of balancing continuity and discontinuity in their daily lives. Focusing on members of the Ghanaian-originated Church of Pentecost, he brings together two rapidly growing areas of scholarship - the study of global Christianity and the anthropological study of ethics - in exciting new ways." -- Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

About the Author

Girish Daswani is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

‘With its vivid ethnography, Looking Back, Moving Forward offers an intimate portrait of the everyday lives of Ghanaian Pentecostals, both in Ghana and in London.’ - Anna Strhan (Marginalia Review of Books - January 2016) ‘An excellent contribution to the study of migrant faith, this book also has much to say about spirituality and religious practice more broadly defined.’ - Philip Jenkins (Christian Century 2 October 2016) "A great strength of Looking Back, Moving Forward is its rich empirical detail, built on long-term an clearly emphatic fieldwork among Ghanaians in Ghana and overseas…Most impressive is this book’s honest acknowledgment of the complexity of everyday religion, a complexity that escapes conceptual grasp and resists theoretical mastery." - Devaka Permawardhana, Emory University (Journal of Religion in Africa, no 48, 2018)