RT Article
T1 Evaluating the Nigerian prosperity gospel as a mixed ideology
JF Missiology
VO 49
IS 4
SP 389
OP 401
A1 Omavuebe, Augustine Igho
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1772237965
AB There are two popular suggestions as to how the prosperity gospel emerged in Nigeria. The first school of thought posits that the phenomenon of the prosperity gospel was exclusively an American ideology imported into Nigeria, while the second view holds that it was entirely an African ideology nurtured with African ingredients and popularised on African soil. There has been little literature that has actively and adequately explored the Nigerian prosperity gospel as a combination of the American prosperity gospel and the Nigerian Pentecostal revivalism. Therefore, to fill this gap in the literature, this article suggests that the Nigerian prosperity gospel is a joint theology with elements of the American prosperity gospel ideology, which has its origins in the American New Thought movement, and the Nigerian Pentecostal revivalism, which has its origins in the Nigerian indigenous Pentecostal movement. This attempt employs a historical approach. In this vein, the narrative explores related literature about the prosperity gospel in Nigeria and offers a radical shift from the popular views that solely attribute the emergence of prosperity gospel ideology to either the Nigerian Indigenous Pentecostal revivalism or the American prosperity theology.
K1 Church
K1 Pentecostal
K1 Nigeria
K1 Africa
K1 Ideology
K1 Theology
K1 Gospel
K1 Prosperity
DO 10.1177/00918296211011732