| Résumé : |
In March 2017, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufu announced
his intention to build a national cathedral to the people of Ghana. The
announcement elicited watertight counter arguments that morphed into two
a priori re-litigated assumptions: First, Ghana is a secular country
and second, religion and state formation are incompatible. Informed by a
frustrating paradox of an overwhelming religious presence and
concurrent pervasive corruption in the country, public conversation
reached a cul-de-sac of “conviction without compromising.” In The
Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana, Charles Prempeh deploys
the national cathedral as an entry point to provide both
interdisciplinary and autoethnographic understanding of religion and
politics. The book shows the capacity of religion, when properly
cultivated and curated as a worldview to answer the why questions of
life, will foster personal, moral, collective and ontological
responsibility. All this is needed to stem the tide against corruption,
commodity fetishism, environmental degradation (illegal
mining—galamsey), heritage destruction and religious exploitation.
Prempeh recuperates a historical fact about the mutual inclusivity
between religion and politics—politics helping to manage differences,
while religion provides a transcendental reason for unity to be forged
for human flourishing. Separating the two is, therefore, ahistorical and
an obvious threat to the intangible virtues that answers, “why and how”
questions for public governance. |
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