The Prosperity Gospel: Debating Modernity in Africa and the African Diaspora
Debates over the role of Pentecostalism in effecting modernity through its widespread "prosperity gospel" remain inconclusive. Though Weber's Protestant Ethic has been persistently invoked, sociological analyses reveal that the prosperity gospel challenges dominant Weberian conceptual...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2021]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-69 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Diaspora (Social sciences)
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Gospel of prosperity
/ Modernity
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| RelBib Classification: | CA Christianity CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church NCE Business ethics |
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Pentecostalism
B Prosperity Gospel B Modernity B Africa B Multiple Modernities B Africana |
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