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Enchanted Calvinism Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana

Enchanted Calvinism's central proposition is that Ghanaian Presbyterian communities have become more enchanted--that is, more attuned to spiritual explanations of and remedies for suffering--as they have become more integrated into capitalist modes of production. The author draws on a specific Weberian concept of religious enchantment to frame the discussion of spiritual affliction and spiritual healing among labor migrants: first, in the early twentieth century during the cocoa boom in Ghana and second, at the turn of the twenty-first century during the healthcare migration from Ghana to Nort.

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