A Thematic Engagement of Literature on Prayer Mountains as Sacred Spaces in Contemporary Ghanaian Christianity
Philip Kwadwo Okyere 
Issue: Vol.8 No.9 October 2022 Issue Article 1 pp.253-268
DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.2022891 | Published online 7th October 2022.
© 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Discourse analysis, sacred, profane, sacred space, prayer rituals, Prayer Mountains
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The Very Rev. Dr. Philip Kwadwo Okyere is an Ordained Minister of the Methodist Church Ghana and currently a lecturer in Religious and Moral Education at the Department of Basic Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana; a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Trinity Theological Seminary, Accra, Ghana; a Master of Philosophy in the Study of Religions from the University of Ghana; Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, and Doctor of Philosophy in the Study of Religions from the University of Ghana. His research interests /areas include Religious and Moral Education, Sacred Space Appropriation in Contemporary African Christianity, Church History, Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology, Religion in Public Life, Comparative Religions and Interreligious Dialogue.
Okyere P.K. “A Thematic Engagement of Literature on Prayer Mountains as Sacred Spaces in Contemporary Ghanaian Christianity,” E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 8 no.9 (2022): 254-269. https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.2022891
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