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Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada

  • Hardback
  • 114 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm

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For sociologists and church mission leaders

Explains how faith aids migrant life stability

See the power of the Gospel in a new country

This engaging study reveals how African Pentecostal faith helps migrant communities navigate life and find hope in Canada.

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This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. Importantly, it details the expressed utility of two central ideas: the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power. As congregants and church materials persistently maintained, these two aspects of African Pentecostalism supply operative spiritual machinery to overcome the difficulties of living in Canada, as well as the means to thrive in a foreign land. Additionally, the connection between these elements and the democratization of power is explored, and Tom Aechtner provides an analysis of how the church cultivates a form of Christian Pan-Africanism among its multiethnic and multinational populations. The book assesses the roles that African Pentecostalism plays in ameliorating longings for home and promoting the need to spiritually reform Canada. Aechtner also describes how African Pentecostalism relates to the mediation of responses to racism in the nation's officially multicultural society.
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  • Title

    Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada

  • Author

    T. Aechtner

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Pivot

  • Published

    March 2015

  • Weight

    296g

  • Page Count

    114

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781137485489

  • ISBN-10

    1137485485

  • Eden Code

    4330382