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000757225 020__ $$a9780190618506$$q(electronic book)
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000757225 1001_ $$aGifford, Paul,$$d1944-$$eauthor.
000757225 24510 $$aChristianity, development and modernity in Africa$$h[electronic resource] /$$cPaul Gifford.
000757225 264_1 $$aOxford ;$$aNew York, NY :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2016.
000757225 264_4 $$c©2016
000757225 300__ $$a1 online resource (viii, 187pages)
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000757225 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000757225 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- The issues -- Enchanted Christianity -- Victory -- Pentecostalism and modernity -- Global Catholicism -- Catholicism and development -- Enchanted Catholicism -- African Catholic theology -- Conclusion: African Christianity and modernity.
000757225 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000757225 520__ $$a"There is an important if largely unremarked diversity within African Christianity; on the one hand, an enchanted Christianity that views the world as pervaded by spiritual forces, and on the other a disenchanted Christianity that discounts them.  An enchanted Christian sees his glorious destiny threatened by witches, spirits, and ancestral curses. Churches catering for this worldview lay bare the workings of this spirit world, and this enchanted imagination, along with the prosperity gospel, and emphasis on the pastor's "anointing," are the principal characteristics of much African Pentecostalism.  Gifford argues that the enchanted religious imagination militates against development by encouraging fear and distrust, diminishing human responsibility and agency, and downplaying functional rationality. The prosperity gospel of "covenant wealth from tithes and offerings" is the antithesis of Weber's Protestant ethic; and to magnify the person of the pastor is to perpetuate the curse of the "Big Man".  Official Catholicism, totally disenchanted and long associated with schools and hospitals, is now involved in development, from microfinance to election monitoring, from conflict resolution to human rights. This "NGO-ization of Catholicism," made almost inevitable by funding from secular donors like the EU and UN, even if defended theologically, comes at the price of failing to address the "religious" needs of so many African Christians."--Publisher's description.
000757225 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2016).
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000757225 650_0 $$aChristianity and culture$$zAfrica.
000757225 650_0 $$aChristianity$$zAfrica$$y21st century.
000757225 650_0 $$aPentecostalism$$zAfrica.
000757225 651_0 $$aAfrica$$xReligious life and customs.
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