Combating COVID-19 and ‘Possessing the Nations’: Insights from Ghana’s Megachurches

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Allison Norton, Felicity Apaah
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Abstract

This article employs social listening techniques to capture the themes and public response to popular coronavirus-related social media posts made by leaders via their public Facebook pages at two of Ghana’s largest and fastest-growing churches: The Church of Pentecost (CoP) and the United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (UD-OLGC). We examine how religious leaders employed social media in response to the pandemic, and how these religious groups reinforced their relevance and reinvented themselves in the face of COVID-19. Additionally, we explore the major beliefs, perceptions, and values that the church’s social media users portrayed in response to the church’s pandemic postings, using social listening techniques and sentiment analysis. These results show how, while adapting to the realities demanded by the pandemic, the social media presence of two of Ghana’s largest churches served as a site for the contestation and negotiation of the religious authority of the leadership.

打击 COVID-19 和 "占有国家":加纳大型教会的启示
本文采用社交聆听技术来捕捉加纳最大、发展最快的两个教会的领导人通过其 Facebook 公共页面发布的与冠状病毒相关的热门社交媒体帖子的主题和公众反应:五旬节教会 (CoP) 和灯塔教会联合教派 (UD-OLGC)。我们研究了宗教领袖如何利用社交媒体来应对这一流行病,以及这些宗教团体如何在 COVID-19 的影响下加强其相关性并重塑自我。此外,我们还利用社交聆听技术和情感分析,探讨了教会社交媒体用户在回应教会发布的大流行病信息时所描绘的主要信仰、观念和价值观。这些结果表明,在适应大流行病所要求的现实情况的同时,加纳最大的两个教会的社交媒体是如何成为领导层宗教权威的争论和协商场所的。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Religion in Africa was founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken over by Adrian Hastings, who retired in 1999. His successor, David Maxwell, acted as Executive Editor until the end of 2005. The Journal of Religion in Africa is interested in all religious traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa, and it is open to every methodology. Its contributors include scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, political science, missiology, literature and related disciplines. It occasionally publishes religious texts in their original African language.
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