@article{Kauppinen:302747,
      recid = {302747},
      author = {Kauppinen, Anna-Riikka and Daswani, Girish},
      title = {Banker, pastor, teef Christian financial elites and  vernaculars of accountability in Ghana},
      address = {2024},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      abstract = {When nine Ghanaian banks collapsed during the country's  2017–2019 financial crisis, a Charismatic Pentecostal  pastor was at the center of public accusations as the board  chairman of one of the failed banks. His role put a  spotlight on the growing influence of Charismatic  Pentecostal institutions and elites in Ghana's financial  market. Shifting the perspective between diverse actors who  reckoned with the bank's collapse, from ordinary Christians  to artist-activists, this article explores how Ghanaians  evaluated the culpability of the pastor and in so doing  problematized who Christian elites involved in banking and  business are accountable to: God, their congregants, or the  public at large? We argue that global financial  liberalization has generated new types of financial elites,  Pentecostal pastors among them, who become subject to new  lines of accountability. Holding someone accountable comes  with stakes expressed through vernacular registers that  demonstrate how financial markets are engulfed in broader  social relations and regimes of ethical evaluation.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/302747},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13969},
}