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Pastures of plenty: tracing religio-scapes of prosperity gospel in Africa and beyond

"Prosperity Gospel, a controversial strand in global Christianity, relates material wealth to divine blessing. Originating in American Pentecostal milieus, it is most successful in Africa. Authors from four continents present interdisciplinary, multi-sited and comparative analyses of Prosperity...

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Other Authors: Heuser, Andreas (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt am Main Bern Wien [u.a.] Lang Edition 2015
Series:Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums 161
In: Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums (161)

Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Pfingstbewegung
Subsaharisches Afrika
Interkulturelle Theologie
Wort-des-Glaubens-Bewegung
Wohlstandsevangelium
Afrika
Online Access:Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=d0fc9c1ea92e48389c75b54ec179db83&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
Einführung/Vorwort: http://www.peterlang.com/exportdatas/exportfiles/onix/intro/9783631661826_leseprobe01.pdf
Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://d-nb.info/1076091938/04
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Author Notes:Andreas Heuser (ed.)
Table of Contents:
  • Religio-scapes of prosperity gospel: an introduction.1.Mapping prosperity gospel in politics and society.Political architecture of poverty: on changing patterns of "African identity" Rainer Tetzlaff
  • Pentecostal improvement strategies: a comparative reading on African and South American Pentecostalism Jens Köhrsen
  • An activist-holiness Kenneth Hagin? A case study of prosperity theology in the Philippines Giovanni Maltese.
  • 2.Embattled theology of prosperity.The prosperity theology of David Oyedepo, founder of Winners' Chapel Paul Gifford
  • "Jesus became poor so that we might become rich." A critical review of the use of biblical reference texts among prosperity preachers in Ghana Werner Kahl
  • "Struggling with Africa": theology of prosperity in and from Brazil Rudolf von Sinner
  • To prosper and to be blessed: prosperity, wealth and "life in abundance" in ecumenical debate Michael Biehl.
  • 3.Routing religio-scapes of prosperity.Battling spirits of prosperity: the "Pentecostalized" interreligious contest over money rituals in Ghana Andreas Heuser
  • Rhetoric and praxis of Ghanaian Salafi and Sufi Muslims: analogies with prosperity gospel Seebaway Zakaria
  • The ethics of wealth and religious pluralism in Burkina Faso: how prosperity gospel is influencing the current religious field in Africa Katrin Langewiesche--Gender dimensions of wealth and health in Ghanaian indigenous religious thinking: narratives of female clients of the Pemsan shrine
  • Encountering "prosperity" gospel in nineteenth century Gold Coast: indigenous perceptions of western missionary societies Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye
  • Freemasonry, occult economies and prosperity in Tanzanian Pentecostal discourse Päivi Hasu.
  • 4.Enchanted Protestant ethic."Now I dress well. Now I work hard" - Pentecostalism, prosperity, and economic development in Cameroon Tomas Sundnes Drønen
  • Prosperity gospel of entrepreneurship in Africa and Black America: a pragmatist Christian innovation David D. Daniels III
  • Martin Luther, wealth and labor: the market economy's links to prosperity gospel Chr. Lucas Zapf.
  • 5.Sacred economy of exchange.A God trap: seed planting, gift logic, and the prosperity gospel Yvan Droz and Yonatan N. Gez
  • Are blessings for sale? ritual exchange, witchcraft allegations, and the de-alienation of money in Tanzanian prosperity ministries Martin Lindhardt.
  • 6.Diasporic (dis)illusions.Between gutter and Gucci, boss and Botho: a relocation of "prosperity gospel" by Nigerian Pentecostal Christians in Soweto, South Africa Drea Fröchtling
  • Missing prosperity: economies of blessings in Ghana and the diaspora Jeanne Rey
  • "With both feet in the air": prosperity gospel in African migrant churches in Switzerland Daniel Frei.

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