Sacred Surplus and Pentecostal Too-Muchness

The Salvation Economy of African Megachurches

Bibliographic Data

ID23213694
AuthorsAsonzeh Ukah (0000-0003-2873-2257, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages323-344
Publication date2020-02-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHandbook of Megachurches (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004412927_017
OpenAlexW2990964073
ISBN9789004412927
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited10

African megachurches may be roughly typlogised into four broad subsets: the prosperity, the Healing/Deliverance, the Personal Empowerment and Apostolic Teaching, and the Prophetic-Healing types. These types share two important features among themselves, the enchantment of popular imagination through the production and dissemination of miracles and the sacredness of, and obsession with, numbers. While African megachurches constitute powerful (political) republics of their own, building impression socioeconomic, or sacred, corporations, they are yet to translate their newfound resources into critical political culture and strategies to produce common goods for the entire African society.

Aesthetics · Art · Empowerment · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Religion, Society, and Development

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