«Pastures of Plenty»

Contents: Andreas Heuser: Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel: an Introduction - Rainer Tetzlaff: Political Architecture of Poverty: On Changing Patterns of «African Identity» - Jens Kohrsen: Pentecostal Improvement Strategies: A Comparative Reading on African and South American Pentecostalism - Giovanni Maltese: An Activist-Holiness Kenneth Hagin? A Case Study of Prosperity Theology in the Philippines - Paul Gifford: The Prosperity Theology of David Oyedepo, Founder of Winners' Chapel - Werner Kahl: «Jesus became poor so that we might become rich.» A Critical Review of the Use of Biblical Reference Texts among Prosperity Preachers in Ghana - Rudolf von Sinner: «Struggling with Africa»: Theology of Prosperity in and from Brazil - Michael Biehl: To Prosper and to Be Blessed: Prosperity, Wealth and «Life in Abundance» in Ecumenical Debate - Andreas Heuser: Battling Spirits of Prosperity: The «Pentecostalized» Interreligious Contest over Money Rituals in Ghana - Seebaway Zakaria: Rhetoric and Praxis of Ghanaian Salafi and Sufi Muslims: Analogies with Prosperity Gospel - Katrin Langewiesche: The Ethics of Wealth and Religious Pluralism in Burkina Faso: How Prosperity Gospel is Influencing the Current Religious Field in Africa - Genevieve Nrenzah: Gender Dimensions of Wealth and Health in Ghanaian Indigenous Religious Thinking: Narratives of Female Clients of the Pemsan Shrine - Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye: Encountering «Prosperity» Gospel in Nineteenth Century Gold Coast: Indigenous Perceptions of Western Missionary Societies - Paivi Hasu: Freemasonry, Occult Economies and Prosperity in Tanzanian Pentecostal Discourse - Tomas Sundnes Dronen: «Now I Dress Well. Now I Work Hard» - Pentecostalism, Prosperity, and Economic Development in Cameroon - David D. Daniels III: Prosperity Gospel of Entrepreneurship in Africa and Black America: A Pragmatist Christian Innovation - Chr. Lucas Zapf: Martin Luther, Wealth and Labor: The Market Economy's Links to Prosperity Gospel - Yvan Droz/Yonatan N. Gez: A God Trap: Seed Planting, Gift Logic, and the Prosperity Gospel - Martin Lindhardt: Are Blessings for Sale? Ritual Exchange, Witchcraft Allegations, and the De-alienation of Money in Tanzanian Prosperity Ministries - Drea Frochtling: Between Gutter and Gucci, Boss and Botho: A Relocation of «Prosperity Gospel» by Nigerian Pentecostal Christians in Soweto, South Africa - Jeanne Rey: Missing Prosperity: Economies of Blessings in Ghana and the Diaspora - Daniel Frei: «With Both Feet in the Air»: Prosperity Gospel in African Migrant Churches in Switzerland.