ABSTRACT Ghanaian Pentecostal pastor-prophets encourage their members to break away from the ancestral past which is projected as a vessel of demonic operations responsible for mishaps in society. Yet traditional priestly actors have challenged the notion that indigenous religious imaginations and ritual spaces are a crucial platform where power and recognition are contested by some pastor-prophets. As such, these traditional priests have particularly warned pastor-prophets to desist from oppugning traditional religion or face exposure of their underground dealings with the traditionalists. In this paper, I reflect on confrontations between traditional priestly actors and neo-Pentecostal pastor-prophets in Ghana, arguing that such confrontations are a function of a power struggle as to who the ‘Big Men’ are in contemporary Ghanaian society. To understanding these confrontations, I contend further that there is the need to interrogate the differing points of continuity and disjuncture between these two traditions.

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“咬喂它们的手？加纳五旬节关于‘打破过去’的话语案例”

摘要 加纳五旬节的牧师和先知鼓励他们的成员摆脱祖先的过去，这些过去被认为是造成社会不幸的恶魔行动的容器。然而，传统的祭司们挑战了这样一种观念，即本土宗教想象和仪式空间是一些牧师先知争夺权力和认可的关键平台。因此，这些传统神父特别警告牧师-先知不要质疑传统宗教，否则他们将与传统主义者进行地下交易。在这篇论文中，我反思了加纳传统神父演员和新五旬节派牧师先知之间的对抗，认为这种对抗是当代加纳社会中“大人物”是谁的权力斗争的结果。