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Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada / by T. Aechtner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aechtner, T., Author.
- Series:
- Religion and Global Migrations, 2945-6401
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and sociology.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Sociology.
- Evangelicalism.
- Pentecostalism.
- Theology.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Human Migration.
- African Culture.
- Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism.
- Christian Theology.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociology of Religion.
- Human Migration.
- African Culture.
- Sociology.
- Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism.
- Christian Theology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VIII, 104 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Now We Are Coming: Global Pentecostalism and the New African Diaspora
- 2.Beliefs and Practices: The Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power
- 3.One in Worship: Recapitulation, Transnational Identities, and Christian Pan-Africanism
- 4.Not Even a Single Enemy: Homeland, Mission, and Responses to Racism
- 5.The Spirit's Utility: Expressed Functionalism and APCC's Future.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781349503711
- 1349503711
- 9781137485496
- 1137485493
- OCLC:
- 945800515
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