Book announcement on Prosperity Gospel
Andreas Heuser (ed.), Pastures of Plenty: Tracing Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond (Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, Vol 161), Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang, 2015 ISBN-10: 3631661827 ISBN-13: 978-3631661826
Dear GloPent members,
May I draw your kind attention to a newly published volume on Prosperity Gospel entitled:
Andreas Heuser (ed.), Pastures of Plenty: Tracing Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond (Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, Vol 161), Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang, 2015
ISBN-10: 3631661827
ISBN-13: 978-3631661826
Pastures of Plenty maps the evolving religio-scapes of Prosperity Gospel. 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. Several contributions cover transnational flows of prosperity theologies between African-American, Latin American or Phillipine and African milieus and churches.
Kind regards,
Andreas Heuser, Basel/Switzerland