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

Description:

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.

subjects: Pentecostal churches,  Canada, emigration and immigration,  Canada, religion,  Canada, social life and customs,  African American Pentecostals,  Religion,  Black Pentecostals,  Blacks,  Black people,  Evangelicalism,  Theology,  Religion and sociology,  Ethnology,  Sociology,  Emigration and immigration