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. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility of the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power.

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University of Queensland, Australia

Thomas Aechtner

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Thomas Aechtner is Lecturer in History of Religious Thought in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics at the University of Queensland, Australia.

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Book Title: Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada
Authors: Thomas Aechtner
Series Title: Religion and Global Migrations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137485496
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48548-9Published: 24 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48549-6Published: 24 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-6398
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6401
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 104
Topics: Religion and Society, Migration, African Culture, Sociology, general, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, Christian Theology

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Now We Are Coming: Global Pentecostalism and the New African Diaspora

Beliefs and Practices: The Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power

One in Worship: Recapitulation, Transnational Identities, and Christian Pan-Africanism

Not Even a Single Enemy: Homeland, Mission, and Responses to Racism

The Spirit’s Utility: Expressed Functionalism and APCC’s Future

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