By contributing this significant case study to a wider literature on Christian practice across Africa and, indeed, the anthropology of Christianity Lauterbach also illuminates an important dynamic in the spread of charismatic Christianity beyond Africa. Lauterbach s book will appeal not only to scholars and students of Africa and African Christianity but also to those interested in global or extra-European Christianity. this book is required reading for scholars interested in the day-to-day lives, ambitions and experiences of African Christians. (Insa Nolte, Africa, Vol. 88 (4), 2018)
Lauterbach s Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power in Ghana, provides us with a refreshing look at what has been described as Ghana s `new Christianity. it certainly does not shy away from foregrounding why Kumasi and Asante notions of wealth, power and status are essential to our understanding of charismatic Christianity in Ghana. Karen Lauterbach s book carefully considers how both historical and cultural continuity as well as Christian discontinuity matter. (Girish Daswani, anthrocybib, blogs. hss. ed. ac. uk, July, 2017)
