When evaluating and trying to understand the movements that occur in countries, a look back at history is important because great changes always have a place of origin . The change that occurs in countries is not isolated and is always influenced by something else. As you study history, you will notice that the past follows a series of causes and effects. The flourishing of the Pentecostal religion in Ghana during the 1990s did not come from nowhere. In Brigit Meyer's article “Praise the Lord”: Popular cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana's New Public Sphere, the author details the events that made the flowering possible and that had to occur for the religion to take such a hold in the state of Ghana. During the democratization of 1992, people felt a loss of community due to the dichotomy between public and private spheres. Pentecostalism took hold in the Ghanaian film industry and was able to give people a sense of community while gaining new followers. The failure to remove religion from the public sphere demonstrates that the split between public and private was false and that the two spheres are inseparable. To better understand the reason for the increase in Christian visibility in Ghana, a look at the Age of Enlightenment details from Roy Porter's book The Enlightenment are important. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement started by intellectuals in the late 17th century. The movement emphasized the adoption of reason in place of traditional faith-based beliefs. The motivation behind the movement was in the belief that "reason alone... would allow a total knowledge of man, society, Nature and the cosmos..." and that... half of the paper... . The separation desired by the Ghanaian state is not possible, Meyer says, and the proof is the increase in religious material in the public sphere. There can be no separation because a person's beliefs remain with them in all aspects of their life. The beliefs they wish to hold will spread into all aspects of their lives. In Ghana, we see this reaction from those who wished to keep religion in their public sphere in the film industry. They managed to influence cinema to the point that if a film producer were to make a film, it would have better themes drawn from Pentecostalism, otherwise no one would watch the film, which would result in a flop film and a waste of money. This influence shows not only the large amount of religious people, but also that religion is important to them and that the spheres of life are inseparable.