Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State

ISBN-13: 9781138242739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 204 str.

Barbara Bompani; Caroline Valois

Opis

This book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to consider the complex relationship between Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity and the socio-political transformation taking place throughout this region.

Spis treści

Introduction: Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State, Barbara Bompani and Caroline Valois;  Part 1: Regenerating Politics: Nationhood, Political Elites and the Elections;  1 ‘Good Christians, Good Citizens’. Pentecostal-charismatic narratives of citizenship, public action and national belonging in contemporary Uganda, Barbara Bompani;  2 Vox Dei, Vox Populi: Pentecostal Citizenship and Political Participation in Nigeria since 1999, Asonzeh Ukah;  3 Election Prophecies and Political Stability in Ghana, Emmanuel Sackey;  4 Democratic Backsliding, Religious Institutions and the Constitution of Citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa, Elizabeth Sheridan Sperber;  Part 2: Regenerating Society: Economies and the Public Sphere;  5 Heavenly Commonwealth and Earthly Good: Contemporary African Pentecostal-charismatic Discourses on Responsible Citizenship, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu;  6 Forging Economic Citizens: Financial Integrity and National Transformation at Watoto Church in Uganda, Caroline Valois;  7 Pentecostals and developmental citizenship in Ethiopia, Emanuele Fantini;  Part 3: Regenerating Morality: Values, Public Beliefs and Morality;  8 Sexual Citizenship in Postcolonial Zambia: From Zambian Humanism to Christian Nationalism, Adriaan van Klinken;  9 ‘I will make you into a Great Nation, and I will Bless you’: Citizens, Traitors and Christianity in Kenya, Gregory Deacon;  10 Citizenship beyond the State: Pentecostal Ethics and Political Subjectivity in South African Modernity, Marian Burchardt;  11 Moral models, self-control and the production of the moral citizen in the Ugandan Pentecostal movement, Alessandro Gusman