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Abstract
Recent elections in Ghana bear witness to the extraordinary power of religion to affect social and political change. This paper illustrates a few varieties of this power through case studies which examine the role of religious leaders in promoting peaceful elections, the way inter-faith dialogue enhances civic duties and fosters peace by bolstering values of justice, forgiveness and cooperation, and the State’s active use of religion to promote domestic agendas, such as government’s ‘courting’ religious groups ostensibly for their votes, and international relations.
Key words: Religion, peaceful elections, democratic process, national development agenda, social and political change, inter-faith dialogue, domestic agendas, international relations.
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