Commodities and the power of prayer: prentecostalist attitudes towards consumption in contemporary Ghana

Development and Change

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 751-776

  Meyer, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; GLOBALIZATION; RELIGION;

GHANA;

EID: 0032446180     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00098     Document Type: Article

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