RT Article
T1 Spirit and Power: Charismatic Personality and the Symbolism of the Eagle in Contemporary African Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity
JF PentecoStudies
VO 21
IS 2
SP 144
OP 165
A1 Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena
LA English
PB Equinox Publ.
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1859081665
AB Contemporary Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity in Africa has adopted new and innovative symbols that fits its theology of prosperity, empowerment, and upward mobility. This article focuses on one of them: the eagle. The features and behavior patterns of the eagle help contemporary Pentecostals to use its symbolic features in articulating a pneumatology of upward mobility, elevation, success and prosperity. The pneumatology of the eagle is a global contemporary Pentecostal phenomenon. In this pneumatology, the eagle, with its powers of vision, longevity, strength, height and renewal, appears in contemporary Pentecostal prosperity discourses as a symbol of aspiration, which appeals very strongly to the sensibilities of upwardly mobile young people who tenaciously embrace the new charismatic fervour.
K1 Africa
K1 Charismatic
K1 Pentecostal
K1 Eagle
K1 Empowerment
K1 Mass Media
K1 Power
K1 Prosperity
K1 Symbol
DO 10.1558/pent.26062