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Item Details
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HEALTH, WEALTH, AND POWER IN AN AFRICAN DIASPORA CHURCH IN CANADA
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| By: |
Thomas Aechtner |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£30.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1137485507 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137485502 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
25 February, 2015 |
| Series: |
Religion and Global Migrations |
| Pages: |
104 |
| Description: |
This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility of the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power. |
| Synopsis: |
This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. Importantly, it details the expressed utility of two central ideas: the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power. As congregants and church materials persistently maintained, these two aspects of African Pentecostalism supply operative spiritual machinery to overcome the difficulties of living in Canada, as well as the means to thrive in a foreign land. Additionally, the connection between these elements and the democratization of power is explored, and Tom Aechtner provides an analysis of how the church cultivates a form of Christian Pan-Africanism among its multiethnic and multinational populations. The book assesses the roles that African Pentecostalism play in ameliorating longings for home and promoting the need to spiritually reform Canada. Aechtner also describes how African Pentecostalism relates to the mediation of responses to racism in the nation's officially multicultural society. |
| Illustrations: |
5 black & white tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Pivot |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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