Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Pentecostalism and Development

Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa [Hardback]

by Dena Freeman

Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Published
September 2012
Weight
341g

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£96.85

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Pentecostalism and Development

Today's Price £96.85

Frequently Bought Together

Pentecostalism and Development

by Dena Freeman

Hardback

The Riddle of Life

by J. H. Bavinck +1

Paperback

Add both to basket for £112.18 and save £3.80

Product Description

The practice and discipline of development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. As societies developed and modernised, it was assumed that they would also undergo a process of secularisation. However, the prominence of religion in many countries and its effects on people's social, political and economic activities calls this assumption into question. Pentecostal Christianity has spread rapidly throughout Africa since the 1980s and has been a major force for change. This book explains why and shows how Pentecostalism articulates with local level development processes. As well as exploring the internal model of 'development' which drives Pentecostal organisations, contributors compare Pentecostal churches and secular NGOs as different types of contemporary development agents and discern the different ways in which they bring about change. At the heart of this book, then, is an exploration of processes of individual and social transformation, and their relevance to understandings of the successes and failures of development.