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Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF ARTS
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF STUDY OF RELIGIONS
Religion and Environmental SustainabilityReligion and SocietyEcotheologyChristian Social
Publications

35

Citations

450

H-index

11

i10-index

14

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
12.9
Most cited paper
77
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
16 Sep 2026, 02:56
Publications

35 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Reclaiming stewardship in Ghana: religion and climate change
BWK Golo, JA Yaro
2013 Nature and Culture 8 (3), 282-300, 2013 Humanities 77
Africa’s poverty and its neo-Pentecostal “liberators”: An ecotheological assessment of Africa’s prosperity gospellers
BWK Golo
2013 Pneuma 35 (3), 366-384, 2013 Humanities 47
From socialization to self-socialization? Exploring the role of digital media in the religious lives of young adults in Ghana, Turkey, and Peru
M Moberg, S Sjö, BWK Golo, H Erdiş Gökçe, RF Hart, SC Cardenas, ...
2019 Religion 49 (2), 240-261, 2019 Humanities 46
Primary religious socialization agents and young adults’ understanding of religion: connections and disconnections
BWK Golo, M Broo, S Sztajer, F Benyah, S Ray, M Sarkar
2019 Religion 49 (2), 179-200, 2019 Humanities 40
Religion and Sustainable Development in Africa: Neo-Pentecostal Economies in Perspective
BWK Golo, E Novieto
2022 Religion and Development 1, 73-95, 2022 Humanities 29
Redeemed from the Earth? Environmental change and salvation theology in African Christianity: Christian faith and the Earth
BWK Golo
2012 Scriptura: Journal for Contextual Hermeneutics in Southern Africa 111 (1 …, 2012 Humanities 26
The groaning earth and the greening of Neo-Pentecostalism in twenty-first-century Ghana
BWK Golo
2014 Penteco Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the …, 2014 Humanities 25
The diversity of worldviews among young adults: Contemporary (non) religiosity and spirituality through the lens of an international mixed method study
P Nynäs, A Keysar, J Kontala, BW Kwaku Golo, MT Lassander, M Shterin, ...
2022 Springer Nature, 2022 Humanities 19
Akan Religious Ontology and Environmental Sustainability in Ghana
BWK Golo, HM Majeed, NO Myles
2023 Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 27 (1-2), 86-114, 2023 Natural Sciences 15
Wealth, health, and hope in African Christian religion: The search for abundant life
E Acolatse, OM Agbiji, M Barkowski, P Clark, F Enegho, CGK Fayose, ...
2017 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017 Humanities 15
Religion and climate change in Ghana: Religious Actor perspectives and sustainable climate change policy
BK Golo, JA Yaro
2013 Nature and Culture 8 (3), 282-300, 2013 Humanities 12
Examining pastor-prophet authority in neo-Pentecostal deliverance practices in Ghana
BWK Golo
2024 Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity 44 (2), 155-175, 2024 Humanities 11
Religious environmental stewardship, the Sabbath and sustainable futures in Africa: Implications for sustainability discourse
BWK Golo
2020 Consensus 41 (1), 4, 2020 Humanities 11
Sohini Ray, and Mallarika Sarkar. 2019.“Primary Religious Socialization Agents and Young Adults’ Understanding of Religion: Connections and Disconnections.”
BWK Golo, M Broo, S Sztajer, F Benyah
1900 Religion 49 (2), 179-200, 0 Humanities 11
Towards an African earth theology of liberation. A study of deforestation in Ghana in a globalised world
BW Golo
2006 Trondheim: Faculty of Arts, 2006 Humanities 9
The prosperity theology of Africa’s neo-Pentecostals: Socioeconomically transforming or in need of transformation?
BWK Golo
2019 Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and the Spirit in the World 8, 247, 2019 Humanities 8
The potential of indigenous religious ecologies for environmental conservation in contemporary Ghana: the Akan as a study case
BWK Golo
2024 Journal of Contemporary African Studies 42 (3), 402-418, 2024 Natural Sciences 7
The contents and discontents of Internet and social media use in the religious lives of Ghanaian young adults
BWK Golo, S Sjö, F Benyah
2020 Digital media, young adults, and religion: An international perspective, 2020 Social Sciences 6
Creation and Salvation in African Neo-Pentecostalist Theology
BWK Golo
2012 Creation and Salvation: A Companion on Recent Theological Movements 2, 62-105, 2012 Humanities 6
Religion and Subjective Well-being: Perspectives of Early Career Professionals in Ghana’s Public Universities
BWK Golo, EE Novieto
2022 Journal of religion in Africa 52 (3-4), 317-347, 2022 Humanities 5
Reclaiming Stewardship in Ghana: Religion and Climate Change. Nature and Culture, 8 (3), 282–300
BWK Golo, JA Yaro
2013 Humanities 5
In search of a sustainable society in Africa: Christianity, justice, and sustainable peace in a changing climate
BWK Golo
2018 Philosophia reformata 83 (1), 68-89, 2018 Humanities 4
Taking Africa out of the African: Eco-Community, the Christian Heritage of Empire, and Neo-Pentecostalism in Africa
BWK Golo
2017 Wealth, health, and hope in African Christian religion, 131-154, 2017 Humanities 4
Eco-justice and human well-being in Ghana’s artisanal mining communities: towards a theological ethic of sustainable community
BWK Golo
2024 Local Environment 29 (6), 736-749, 2024 Humanities 3
Consented Abuses? Analyzing Perspectives of Christian Young Adults Regarding Human Rights Concerns in Neo-Pentecostal Deliverance Practices in Ghana
BWK Golo, FEK Benyah
2025 Transformation 42 (2), 144-160, 2025 Law 2