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"I experience serenity and ...
Finding sacred space in an urban world, a crowded city such as Accra, can be a daunting task for emerging and established religious groups. Some prayer groups in Accra surmount this hurdle in creative ways such as worshipping in the forest. Leaders and members of informal prayer groups gather at Achimota Forest in Accra daily, except Sundays, with more than 1,000 worshippers on a typical Saturday. Prayer group members have transformed the forest from a recreational park, its intended purpose, into sacred space. This paper investigates how the forest fulfils the need for a place for self-expression and individual attention to personal problems in a sacred space that allows believers to transcend denominations in the expression of their common religious beliefs and practices
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analitica Rebiun31554205 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun31554205 220812s2014 xx o 000 0 eng d https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=5072262 (Revista) ISSN 2255-2715 S9M oai:dialnet.unirioja.es:ART0000781965 https://dialnet.unirioja.es/oai/OAIHandler 21 DGCNT S9M S9M dc "I experience serenity and convenience in the forest" - Achimota Forest turned sacred space to confront the vicissitudes of life electronic resource] 2014 application/pdf Open access content. Open access content star Finding sacred space in an urban world, a crowded city such as Accra, can be a daunting task for emerging and established religious groups. Some prayer groups in Accra surmount this hurdle in creative ways such as worshipping in the forest. Leaders and members of informal prayer groups gather at Achimota Forest in Accra daily, except Sundays, with more than 1,000 worshippers on a typical Saturday. Prayer group members have transformed the forest from a recreational park, its intended purpose, into sacred space. This paper investigates how the forest fulfils the need for a place for self-expression and individual attention to personal problems in a sacred space that allows believers to transcend denominations in the expression of their common religious beliefs and practices LICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. Más información: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS STATEMENT: Full text documents hosted by Dialnet are protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by its authors or editors. Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to linking, browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes. All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions expressed by editors and authors and require consent from them. Any link to this document should be made using its official URL in Dialnet. More info: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI English Achimota Forest Prayer Groups Recreational Park Sacred Space text (article) Okyerefo, Michael. cre Journal of the sociology and theory of religion, ISSN 2255-2715, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Vol. 3) Journal of the sociology and theory of religion, ISSN 2255-2715, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Vol. 3) Journal of the sociology and theory of religion, ISSN 2255-2715, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Vol. 3)