Grounding the Prosperity Gospel: Sites of Wealth and Power in Ghana
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Grounding the Prosperity Gospel : Sites of Wealth and Power in Ghana. / Lauterbach, Karen; Bob-Milliar, George M.
The Pentecostal World. ed. / Michael Wilkinson; Jörg Haustein. Routledge, 2023. (Routledge Worlds).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Grounding the Prosperity Gospel
T2 - Sites of Wealth and Power in Ghana
AU - Lauterbach, Karen
AU - Bob-Milliar, George M.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The prosperity gospel, or the health and wealth gospel, is often characterized as a Pentecostal movement and theological principle that has its roots in the United States and that has dispersed globally with a significant imprint on African Pentecostalism. This chapter presents an overview of grounding the prosperity gospel is based on an analysis of the project of building a National Cathedral in Accra, Ghana. The project was launched by President Nana Akufo-Addo in March 2017 and was presented at the occasion of the celebration of Ghana's sixtieth anniversary as an independent nation. In 2021, a fundraising campaign was launched and as part of that the secretariat for the National Cathedral project released a “fundraising documentary video.” Elizabeth Sackey, Regional minister for Greater Accra, gave an address at the event and it was reported “that the corporate prayer of Christians was necessary for the ‘permission and blessings of Heaven’ for the success of the project”.
AB - The prosperity gospel, or the health and wealth gospel, is often characterized as a Pentecostal movement and theological principle that has its roots in the United States and that has dispersed globally with a significant imprint on African Pentecostalism. This chapter presents an overview of grounding the prosperity gospel is based on an analysis of the project of building a National Cathedral in Accra, Ghana. The project was launched by President Nana Akufo-Addo in March 2017 and was presented at the occasion of the celebration of Ghana's sixtieth anniversary as an independent nation. In 2021, a fundraising campaign was launched and as part of that the secretariat for the National Cathedral project released a “fundraising documentary video.” Elizabeth Sackey, Regional minister for Greater Accra, gave an address at the event and it was reported “that the corporate prayer of Christians was necessary for the ‘permission and blessings of Heaven’ for the success of the project”.
U2 - 9781003108269-32
DO - 9781003108269-32
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780367621803
T3 - Routledge Worlds
BT - The Pentecostal World
A2 - Wilkinson, Michael
A2 - Haustein, Jörg
PB - Routledge
ER -
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