Elizabeth Amoah

Education or Qualification:

• PhD (Study of Religions), University of Ghana, Legon, 1975-1979
• MA (Study of Religions), University of Ghana, Legon, 1972-1974
• B.A. (Study of Religions), University of Ghana, Legon, 1969-1972

Research interests:

• Cross-cultural Marriages and Religio-cultural Identity Creation in Ghana.
• Ageing of Spirituality.

Publications:

Books Edited

• Amoah, Elizabeth, ed. Where God Reigns: Reflections on women in God's World. Accra: Sam-Woode Ltd., 1997.
• Amoah , Elizabeth, ed. Divine Empowerment of Women in Africa's Complex Realities. Accra: Sam- Woode Ltd., 2001.
• Amoah , Elizabeth, ed. Poems of Mercy Amba Oduyoye. Accra: Sam-Woode, Ltd., 2004.
• Amoah, Elizabeth, and Mercy Amba Oduyoye,. People of Faith and the Challenge of HIV/AIDS. Ibadan Sefer, 2004.
• Amoah, Elizabeth, and Mercy Amba Oduyoye,. When Silence is no Longer an Option. Accra: Sam-Woode Ltd., 2002.
• Amoah, Elizabeth, and Rabiatu Ammah,. Too Painful to Tell: Women of Faith Against Domestic Voilence. Accra: Sam-Woode Ltd., 2004.

Book Chapters

• Amoah, Elizabeth. “African Spirituality, Religion and Innovation.” In Religion: Emperical Studies, edited by Steven Sutcliffe, 217-229. Ashgate, 2004.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “Akan Conception of the Relationship between Humanity and Nature.” In Where God Reigns: Reflections of Women in God's World, edited by Elizabeth Amoah, 3-10. Accra: Sam-Woode Ltd., 1997.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “BUAME am FLUBUfer.” In Psalm 1 Wie ein Baum gepflanzt an Wasserbachen Bibel Sonntag, edited by Beate Buyer, Barbel Wartenburg-Potter and Bernhard Kruatter, 15-19. Stuttart Deutsche Bibelgesellscaft, 2000.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “Der Einflus Charismatischer Gruppen in Ghana aus der Sicht einer Frau.” In Geistbewgt und bibeltreu; Weltmission heute, 28-43. Nr. 19. Evangelisches Mssionswerk in Deutschland., 1995.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “Femaleness: Akan Concept and Practices.” In Women Religion and Sextuality, edited by Jeanne Bercher, 129-153. Geneva World Council of Churches, 1990.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “Religion and the Environment in Ghana.” In Women in Religion and Culture: Essays in Honour of Constance Buchanan Ibadan, edited by Mercy Amba Oduyoye, 30-47. Sefer, 2007.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “The Women who decided to break the Rule.” In New Eyes for Reading, edited by J S Pobee and Barbel Wartenberg-Potter, 3-4. Geneva WCC, 1986.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “Voilence and Women's Body in African Perspectives.” In Women Resisting Voilence: Spirituality for Life, edited by M J Manazan, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, E Tamez, S J Clarkson, C M Grey and Letty M Russel, 80-83. New York: Maryknoll, 1996.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “Women and the Emerging Spirituality in Africa.” In The_Oaxtepec Encounter - Third World Women Doing Theology, edited by Virginia Fabella and Delorita Martinez, 63-66. Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, 1986.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. “Women, Witches and Social Change in Ghana.” In Speaking of Faith Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women, Religion and Social Change, edited by L Diana Eck and Devaki Jain, 77-87. New Delhi: New Delhi Indrapraprastha Press, 1986.
• Amoah Elizabeth, and Oduyoye, Mercy. “The Christ for African Women.” In With_Passion and - Third World Women Doing Theology, edited by Virginia Fabella and Mercy O Amba duyoye, 35-45. New York: Maryknoll, 1988.
• Amoah , Elizabeth. "Preface." In Religion and Gender-based Voilence: West African Experience, edited by Rose Mary Amenga-Etego and Mercy Amba Oduyoye. Accra: Asempa Publishers, 2013.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "'Poverty is Madness': Some Insights from Traditional African Spirituality and Mental Health." In Another World is Possible: Spiritualities and Religions of Global Darker People, edited by Dwight N Hopkins and Marjorie Lewis, 207-218. London Oakville: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2009.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "The African Traditional Religion and the Concept of Poverty." In Religion and Poverty: Pan-African Perspectives, edited by Peter J Paris, 111-127. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "The Dialogue at the well: A model of Interreligious Dialogue." In Transkulturelle begegnungen und interreligioser dialog: Erkundungen und entdeckungen im Anschluss an Werner Kahl, edited by Uta Andrée, Ruomin Liu and Sönke Lorberg-Fehring, 327-342. Hamburg: Missionsakademie an der Universität, 2017.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. Women as Portrayed in some African Proverbs. Vol. 5, in Embracing the Boabab Tree: The African Proverb in the 21st Century, edited by Willem Saayman, 203-213. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1997.

Articles in International Dictionaries

• Amoah, Elizabeth. "Christologies, African." In Dictionary of Third World Theologies, edited by Virginia Febella and R S Sugirtharajah, 41-43. New York: Orbis Books Maryknoll, 2002.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "Sacrifice/Self-Negation." In Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, edited by Letty M Russell and Shannon Clarkson, 254. Louiseville Kentucky Westmister: John Knox Press, 1996.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "African Rtuals." In Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, edited by Letty M Russell and Shannon Clarkson, 250. Louiseville Kentucky Westmister: John Knox Press, 1996.

Peer-review Journal Article

• Amoah, Elizabeth. "A Living Spirituality Today." Voices from the Third World XIV, no.2 (Dec. 1991): 50-54.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "African Reality and Hope." Edited by Virgil Elizondo and Jon Sobrino. Concilium (Sept. 2000.) 12-18.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "Christology and Popular Religions: African Constructive Statement." Voices from the Third World XVIII (Dec. 2000): 138-142.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "Perspectives theologiques et en Afrique anglophone." Spiritus 160 (2000): 301-308.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "Viable and Sustainable Theological Formation for Africa: Some Challenges." Ministerial Formation 71 (Oct. 1995): 49-50.

On-line Journal Article

• Amoah, Elizabeth. “African Indigenous Religin and Inter-Religious Relationship.” 1998. http://www.interfaith-centre.org/resources/lectures/1998_1.htm (accessed August 30, 2007).
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "Theological Perspectives on Mutual Solidarity in the Context of Globalization: The Circle Experience." In The Handbook of Feminist Theology, edited by Sheila Briges and Mary McChintock Fulkerson. 2011. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9781199273881.oo3.0011.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "Reflections on and the Impact of the ''Teaching for Change'' Conference." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 23 (2). 2007: 95-98. https://muse.jhu.edu/.
• Amoah, Elizabeth. "An African Prayer from the Heart of a Woman." Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Religion 7, no.1.2 (2016): 1-9. http://raceandreligion.com/JRER/Volume_7_(2016)_files/Amoah%207%201%202.pdf

Professional Associations:

• 1989 – date: Founding Member, The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (The Circle).