Pastures of plenty : tracing religio-scapes of prosperity gospel in Africa and beyond / Andreas Heuser (ed.)
"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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt am Main ; New York :
Peter Lang Edition,
2015.
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| Series: | Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums ;
Bd. 161. |
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Item Description: | "The publication of this volume has been supervised by Professor Dr. Klaus Koschorke. Printed with support of the Bertha Hess-Cohn Foundation, Basel." |
| Physical Description: | 374 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783631661826 3631661827 |