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Lauterbach, Karen. 2017. Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power in Ghana

Reviewed by Girish Daswani (University of Toronto). In an important thesis published in 1998, Birgit Meyer showed how making a ‘complete break with the past’ had become a central concern for Ghanaian Pentecostals. Five years later, Joel Robbins’ (2003) piece on the

July 7, 2017 ndca-admin

Wignall, “From Swagger to Serious”

Wignall, Ross.  2016. From Swagger to Serious: Managing Young Masculinities between Faiths at a Young Men’s Christian Association Centre in …

March 14, 2017 ndca-admin

Taylor, “Reconsidering Samuel”

Taylor, Lauren A.  2016.  Reconsidering Samuel: A Mental Health Caretaker at a Ghanaian Prayer Camp.  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine …

February 24, 2017 ndca-admin

Jennings, “Great Risk for the Kingdom”

Jennings, Mark Alan Charles.  2017. Great Risk for the Kingdom: Pentecostal-Charismatic Growth Churches, Pastorpreneurs, and Neoliberalism.  In, Multiculturalism and the …

January 5, 2017 ndca-admin

Lauterbach, “Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power”

Lauterbach, Karen.  2017.  Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power in Ghana.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.  Publisher’s Description: This book centers around …

December 7, 2016 ndca-admin

Beck and Gundersen, “A Gospel of Prosperity?”

Beck, Sedefka V. and Sara J. Gundersen. A Gospel of Prosperity? An Analysis of the Relationship Between Religion and Earned …

July 8, 2016 ndca-admin

Interview with Girish Daswani

The following is an interview with Girish Daswani, associate professor at the University of Toronto, conducted by Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, who …

April 5, 2016 ndca-admin

Butticci, “African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe”

Butticci, Annalisa. 2016. African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University …

April 1, 2016 ndca-admin

Marshall, “Destroying arguments and captivating thoughts”

Marshall, Ruth.  2016. Destroying arguments and captivating thoughts: Spiritual warfare prayer as global praxis. Journal of Religious and Political Practice. …

January 15, 2016 ndca-admin

Oye-Lagudam, “African Religious Movements and Pentecostalism”

Oye-Laguda, Oguntola.  2015. African Religious Movements and Pentecostalism: The Model of Ijo-Orunmila, Ato.  In, Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa …

January 5, 2016 ndca-admin

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