Abstract

The extent to which religion permeates the life of a Ghanaian has long been identified. The Ghanaian cultural practices and African Traditional Worship appear to be infused. Most Ghanaians who are Christians are also conscious and interested in their culture. However, aspects of some of these cultural practices such as puberty rite, installation of chiefs, royal burials have been perceived as idol worship by some Christians. Whilst a pastor felt the need to be installed a chief so that he could Christianize his traditional institution, his mother Church, The Salvation Army, Ghana compelled him to step down from being a sub-chief. This qualitative paper propped into existing literature, researcher’s participant observations, informal discussions and an interview with a pastor enstooled a sub chief and destooled by orders of his church. It discusses some cultural practices in the Ghanaian setting to unravel the thin line between culture and Traditional Worship.  We argue that there is a thin line between culture and traditional worship.

Keywords

  • Culture
  • Traditional Worship
  • Ghanaian
  • idol worship

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