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Pentecostalism and development : churches, NGOs and social change in Africa / edited by Dena Freeman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Non-governmental public action seriesPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan ; [Jerusalem] : Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2012.Description: xiii, 235 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781137017246 (hbk.)
  • 1137017244 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.85096 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1644.5.A35 P46 2012
Contents:
The Pentecostal ethic and the spirit of development / Dena Freeman -- Pentecostalism, populism and the new politics of affect / Jean Comaroff -- Prosperity gospels and enchanted worldviews : two responses to socio-economic transformation in Tanzanian Pentecostal Christianity / Päivi Hasu -- Pentecostalism and post-development : exploring religion as a developmental ideology in Ghanaian migrant communities / Rijk van Dijk -- Pentecostal and development imaginaries in West Africa / Charles Piot -- Saving development : secular NGOs, the Pentecostal revolution and the search for a purified political space in the Taita Hills, Kenya / James H. Smith -- Development and the rural entrepreneur : Pentecostals, NGOs and the market in the Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia / Dena Freeman -- Pentecostalism, development NGOs and meaning in Eastern Uganda / Ben Jones -- Agents of gendered change : empowerment, salvation and gendered transformation in urban Kenya / Damaris Parsitau.
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Pentecostal ethic and the spirit of development / Dena Freeman -- Pentecostalism, populism and the new politics of affect / Jean Comaroff -- Prosperity gospels and enchanted worldviews : two responses to socio-economic transformation in Tanzanian Pentecostal Christianity / Päivi Hasu -- Pentecostalism and post-development : exploring religion as a developmental ideology in Ghanaian migrant communities / Rijk van Dijk -- Pentecostal and development imaginaries in West Africa / Charles Piot -- Saving development : secular NGOs, the Pentecostal revolution and the search for a purified political space in the Taita Hills, Kenya / James H. Smith -- Development and the rural entrepreneur : Pentecostals, NGOs and the market in the Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia / Dena Freeman -- Pentecostalism, development NGOs and meaning in Eastern Uganda / Ben Jones -- Agents of gendered change : empowerment, salvation and gendered transformation in urban Kenya / Damaris Parsitau.

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