Practising Religion across National Borders: A Study of Ghanaian Christian Churches in Amsterdam

• DOI: 10.14220/jrat.2017.3.1.148
• Publication Date: 2017-01-16T07:21:13Z
• Authors: Justice Richard K...; Mary Boatemaa Set...; Rafal Smoczynski
• Keywords: Mainstream; CONTEST; Participant Observation; Diaspora; Field research; Empirical Research

The paper investigates the rationale behind multiplicity of cross-border relations Ghanaian Christian churches in Amsterdam and involvement second generations transnational religious discourse. It contributes to filling empirical research gap practices Sub-Saharan African diaspora. This study also literature on intergenerational activities Africans Europe. raises three main questions: what extent do engage practices? In ways generation Ghanaians field? Is mission reverse or internal among Amsterdam? adopts ethnographic methodology in-depth interviews with fifty nine Amsterdam, participant observation informal which occurred from January 2014 until 2015. concludes that inasmuch as some strengthen their integration into mainstream Dutch society, they are involved activities. nation state poses structural constraints field but exercise agency contest re-define restrictions. recommends further gender social studied Amsterdam.