Christian citizens and the moral regeneration of the African state / edited by Barbara Bompani and Caroline Valois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bompani, Barbara, editor, author.

Valois, Caroline, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostalism--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Pentecostalism.

Citizenship--Religious aspects--Pentecostal churches.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Political participation--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Political participation.

Political participation--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Economic development--Religious aspects--Pentecostal churches.

Economic development.

Economic development--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

xi, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: Christian citizens and the moral regeneration of the African state / Barbara Bompani and Caroline Valois

Part 1: Regenerating politics: nationhood, political elites and the elections

"Good Christians, good citizens". Pentecostal-charismatic narratives of citizenship, public action and national belonging in contemporary Uganda / Barbara Bompani

Vox dei, vox populi: Pentecostal citizenship and political participation in Nigeria since 1999 / Asonzeh Ukah

Election prophecies and political stability in Ghana / Emmanuel Sackey

Democratic backsliding, religious institutions and the constitution of citizenship in Sub-Saharan Africa / Elizabeth Sheridan Sperber

Part 2: Regenerating society: economies and the public sphere

Heavenly commonwealth and earthly good: contemporary African Pentecostal-charismatic discourses on responsible citizenship / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Forging economic citizens: financial integrity and national transformation at Watoto Church in Uganda / Caroline Valois

Pentecostals and developmental citizenship in Ethiopia / Emanuele Fantini

Part 3: Regenerating morality: values, public beliefs and morality

Sexual citizenship in postcolonial Zambia: from Zambian humanism to Christian nationalism / Adriaan van Klinken

"I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you": citizens, traitors and Christianity in Kenya / Gregory Deacon

Citizenship beyond the state: Pentecostal ethics and political subjectivity in South African modernity / Marian Burchardt

Moral models, self-control and the production of the moral citizen in the Ugandan Pentecostal movement / Alessandro Gusman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138242739

113824273X

OCLC:

975370053