Pastures of plenty : tracing religio-scapes of prosperity gospel in Africa and beyond /
Pastures of plenty : tracing religio-scapes of prosperity gospel in Africa and beyond / [print]
Andreas Heuser (edition).
- Frankfurt am Main : New York : Peter Lang Edition, (c)2015.
- 374 pages ; 22 cm.
- Studies in the intercultural history of Christianity ; v. 161 .
- Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums ; Bd. 161. .
"The publication of this volume has been supervised by Professor Dr. Klaus Koschorke. Printed with support of the Bertha Hess-Cohn Foundation, Basel."
Includes bibliographies and index.
Religio-scapes of prosperity gospel: an introduction PART 1. -- Mapping prosperity gospel in politics and society. -- Political architecture of poverty: on changing patterns of "African identity" / Pentecostal improvement strategies: a comparative reading on African and South American Pentecostalism / An activist-holiness Kenneth Hagin? A case study of prosperity theology in the Philippines / Rainer Tetzlaff -- Jens Kohrsen -- Giovanni Maltese PART 2. -- Embattled theology of prosperity. -- The prosperity theology of David Oyedepo, founder of Winners' Chapel / "Jesus became poor so that we might become rich." A critical review of the use of biblical reference texts among prosperity preachers in Ghana / "Struggling with Africa": theology of prosperity in and from Brazil / To prosper and to be blessed: prosperity, wealth and "life in abundance" in ecumenical debate / Paul Gifford -- Werner Kahl -- Rudolf von Sinner -- Michael Biehl PART 3. -- Routing religio-scapes of prosperity. -- Battling spirits of prosperity: the "Pentecostalized" interreligious contest over money rituals in Ghana / Rhetoric and praxis of Ghanaian Salafi and Sufi Muslims: analogies with prosperity gospel / The ethics of wealth and religious pluralism in Burkina Faso: how prosperity gospel is influencing the current religious field in Africa / 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 / Freemasonry, occult economies and prosperity in Tanzanian Pentecostal discourse / Andreas Heuser -- Seebaway Zakaria -- Katrin Langewiesche -- Genevieve Nrenzah -- Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye -- Paivi Hasu PART 4. -- Enchanted Protestant ethic. -- "Now I dress well. Now I work hard" -- Pentecostalism, prosperity, and economic development in Cameroon / Prosperity gospel of entrepreneurship in Africa and Black America: a pragmatist Christian innovation / Martin Luther, wealth and labor: the market economy's links to prosperity gospel / Tomas Sundnes Drnen -- David D. Daniels III -- Chr. Lucas Zapf. PART 5. -- Sacred economy of exchange. -- A God trap: seed planting, gift logic, and the prosperity gospel / Are blessings for sale? ritual exchange, witchcraft allegations, and the de-alienation of money in Tanzanian prosperity ministries / Yvan Droz and Yonatan N. Gez -- Martin Lindhardt PART 6. -- Diasporic (dis)illusions. -- Between gutter and Gucci, boss and Botho: a relocation of "prosperity gospel" by Nigerian Pentecostal Christians in Soweto, South Africa / Missing prosperity: economies of blessings in Ghana and the diaspora / "With both feet in the air": prosperity gospel in African migrant churches in Switzerland / Drea Frochtling -- Jeanne Rey -- Daniel Frei.
"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 Gospel in Africa and beyond. Prosperity theologies adapt to varied political contexts and travel outside Pentecostalism into the wider religious arena. Its components trigger discourses within ecumenical Christianity and are transformed in transnational Christian networks of migrants; they turn up in African shrine religion and African Islam. Pastures of Plenty maps the evolving religio-scapes of Prosperity Gospel."--Publisher's summary.
9783631661826 3631661827
2015025907
GBB5B7814 bnb
017515975 Uk
Faith movement (Hagin)--Africa.
Faith movement (Hagin)
Pentecostalism--Africa.
Wealth--Religious aspects--Pentecostalism.
BR1643.H595.P378 2015 BR1643
"The publication of this volume has been supervised by Professor Dr. Klaus Koschorke. Printed with support of the Bertha Hess-Cohn Foundation, Basel."
Includes bibliographies and index.
Religio-scapes of prosperity gospel: an introduction PART 1. -- Mapping prosperity gospel in politics and society. -- Political architecture of poverty: on changing patterns of "African identity" / Pentecostal improvement strategies: a comparative reading on African and South American Pentecostalism / An activist-holiness Kenneth Hagin? A case study of prosperity theology in the Philippines / Rainer Tetzlaff -- Jens Kohrsen -- Giovanni Maltese PART 2. -- Embattled theology of prosperity. -- The prosperity theology of David Oyedepo, founder of Winners' Chapel / "Jesus became poor so that we might become rich." A critical review of the use of biblical reference texts among prosperity preachers in Ghana / "Struggling with Africa": theology of prosperity in and from Brazil / To prosper and to be blessed: prosperity, wealth and "life in abundance" in ecumenical debate / Paul Gifford -- Werner Kahl -- Rudolf von Sinner -- Michael Biehl PART 3. -- Routing religio-scapes of prosperity. -- Battling spirits of prosperity: the "Pentecostalized" interreligious contest over money rituals in Ghana / Rhetoric and praxis of Ghanaian Salafi and Sufi Muslims: analogies with prosperity gospel / The ethics of wealth and religious pluralism in Burkina Faso: how prosperity gospel is influencing the current religious field in Africa / 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 / Freemasonry, occult economies and prosperity in Tanzanian Pentecostal discourse / Andreas Heuser -- Seebaway Zakaria -- Katrin Langewiesche -- Genevieve Nrenzah -- Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye -- Paivi Hasu PART 4. -- Enchanted Protestant ethic. -- "Now I dress well. Now I work hard" -- Pentecostalism, prosperity, and economic development in Cameroon / Prosperity gospel of entrepreneurship in Africa and Black America: a pragmatist Christian innovation / Martin Luther, wealth and labor: the market economy's links to prosperity gospel / Tomas Sundnes Drnen -- David D. Daniels III -- Chr. Lucas Zapf. PART 5. -- Sacred economy of exchange. -- A God trap: seed planting, gift logic, and the prosperity gospel / Are blessings for sale? ritual exchange, witchcraft allegations, and the de-alienation of money in Tanzanian prosperity ministries / Yvan Droz and Yonatan N. Gez -- Martin Lindhardt PART 6. -- Diasporic (dis)illusions. -- Between gutter and Gucci, boss and Botho: a relocation of "prosperity gospel" by Nigerian Pentecostal Christians in Soweto, South Africa / Missing prosperity: economies of blessings in Ghana and the diaspora / "With both feet in the air": prosperity gospel in African migrant churches in Switzerland / Drea Frochtling -- Jeanne Rey -- Daniel Frei.
"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 Gospel in Africa and beyond. Prosperity theologies adapt to varied political contexts and travel outside Pentecostalism into the wider religious arena. Its components trigger discourses within ecumenical Christianity and are transformed in transnational Christian networks of migrants; they turn up in African shrine religion and African Islam. Pastures of Plenty maps the evolving religio-scapes of Prosperity Gospel."--Publisher's summary.
9783631661826 3631661827
2015025907
GBB5B7814 bnb
017515975 Uk
Faith movement (Hagin)--Africa.
Faith movement (Hagin)
Pentecostalism--Africa.
Wealth--Religious aspects--Pentecostalism.
BR1643.H595.P378 2015 BR1643