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The Contribution of Prosperity Gospel to the Rise of Pentecostalism in Mansa Township, Zambia

2023; Volume: 10; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20431/2349-0381.1007001

ISSN

2349-0373

Autores

Du Yakun, Fan Linzhou, Arbey Hernán Medina Rocha, Rodrigo Cabrera Pérez, Clara Isabel Bermudez Santana,

Tópico(s)

Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

Resumo

This Study investigated the contribution of Prosperity Gospel to the rise of Pentecostalism in Mansa Township of Luapula, one of Zambia's Provinces.Dr Hermen Kroesbergen opens his first chapter in his book entitled Neo-Pentecostalism in Southern Africa with the remarks "A spirit is haunting Southern Africathe spirit of Neo-Pentecostalism" (Hermen Kroesbergen, 2018:1).He observes that the Pentecostal ministries have been changing over time, that we now see a similar spirit moving, a spirit he calls "the spirit of Neo-Pentecostalism". Kroesbergen contends that a group of scholars from Southern Africa -Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwehad reflected upon this influence which he says had dramatically changed the face of religion and society in general in Southern Africa.As for the time when the Charismatic movement gained entry into Zambia, Anderson (2015) contends that stating exactly when the movement emerged in Zambia could be quite challenging because its emergence is not precisely known.Nevertheless, Cheyeka (2009) observes that what is worth knowing is that up until the 1980s, there was no official Charismatic movement in Zambia's mainline Christianity because Pentecostal spiritualities were discriminated against and marginalized as unorthodox Anderson further contends that the seed of the movement was sown in Zambia in 1967 when Billy Graham, an American Pentecostal Televangelist, staged the " 7-day Crusade' in Kitwe, which attracted over 28,000 people.From that time, Zambian Charismatics adopted practices which would characterize the movement in the 1990s (Ibid).The article, however, does not claim to give an extensive report on the history of Pentecostalism in Zambia, for this would imply going outside the scope.Its focus is rather limited to exploring the contribution of the Prosperity Gospel to the rise of Pentecostalism in Mansa Township of Zambia.

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