Consumerist Prosperity Churches and Communality in Africa: An Eco-Social and Theological Evaluation of the Relationships
Using review of secondary literature, I examine the inordinate materialist orientations and attitudes of consumerist prosperity churches in Africa and their consequences for communality – the ethos that seeks to safeguard social and environmental relationships. Following an examination of the consum...
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2023
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Exchange
Year: 2023, Volume: 52, Issue: 4, Pages: 281-313 |
| RelBib Classification: | FD Contextual theology KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NCC Social ethics NCE Business ethics ZB Sociology |
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Social relationships
B Consumerism B materialist orientation B consumerist prosperity churches B Environmental Sustainability B communality B African societies |
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