African gifts of the spirit : Pentecostalism & the rise of a Zimbabwean transnational religious movement / David Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, David, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assemblies of God--Africa.

Assemblies of God.

Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa.

Pentecostal churches--Zimbabwe--History.

Pentecostal churches.

History.

Zimbabwe.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xv, 250 pages : illustrations maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : James Currey ; Athens, Ohio ; Ohio University Press ; Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press, 2006.

Summary:

This book considers the rise of born-again Christianity in Africa through a study of one of the most dynamic Pentecostal movements. David Maxwell traces the transformation of the prophet Ezekiel Guti and his prayer band from small beginnings in the townships of the 1950s into the present-day transnational business enterprise, which is now the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God. Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa claims one and a half million members in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa and has branches in other African countries, Europe, and the United States. "African Gifts of the Spirit "illuminates Africa's relations with American Christianities, black and white.

Contents:

Place Names xii

1 Print, Post & Proselytism in the Making of Global Pentecostalism 17

2 Missions & Independency: The Southern African Pentecostal Movement ca. 1908-1950 38

3 Sects & the City: Nationalism, Evangelism & Respectability in the Making of The Assemblies of God, African 1950s-1970 60

4 'Pooma Satani' Chasing out the Demons of Sin, Sickness & Poverty: Church Growth in the Decade of National Liberation 1970-1980 88

5 'A Sleeping Giant': Religious Globalisation, History & Identity in the 1980s 109

6 Managing Ministry: Mission, Money & Memorialisation 1990s-2000s 133

7 Taking up the Missionary Mantle: Transnational Expansion in a Post-Colonial world 1980s-2000s 163

8 'Priests for our Families' Poverty, Prosperity & Pentecostal Spirituality in Neo-Liberal Zimbabwe 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index.

ISBN:

0852559658

9780852559659

0852559666

9780852559666

0821417371

9780821417379

082141738X

9780821417386

1779220529

9781779220523

OCLC:

70230242