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- Title
'LEGON DAY OF PRAYER': A CONTESTED RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY IN THE ACADEME.
- Authors
Kweku Okyerefo, Michael Perry
- Abstract
The Pentecostal wave is ubiquitous in the University of Ghana, Legon, palpable in the numerous banners and on vehicles with labels of a variety of groups, announcing religious services and visits of various evangelists. These events are mainly organized by students. Although they bring pastors to their communities on campus and belong to campus branches of a plethora of churches in the city of Accra, students are generally their own leaders in what is termed 'campus ministry'. They organize teaching sessions on various social and religious topics, courses on the Bible, and crusades on open fields of the university, in Hall chapels and even in lecture theatres. One of the most contested aspects of this development is students' Lunchtime prayer service, the 'Legon Day of Prayer' (LDOP) that can be quite noisy, and is contested by the university community. This paper examines the nature of this religious activity in relation to University discipline.
- Subjects
RELIGION in universities &; colleges; COLLEGE discipline; CHAPEL exercises in universities &; colleges; PRAYER meetings; UNIVERSITY of Ghana
- Publication
Contemporary Journal of African Studies, 2015, Vol 3, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
2343-6530
- Publication type
Article