The pastor’s ‘love offering’: prosperity gospel and a child witchcraft accusation narrative
This reflective first-person narrative study emerged from a personal encounter in a village near Eket City in Nigeria. This article adopts a multidisciplinary approach with a theological concentration to understand the issues of beliefs, uncertainty, religious leaders, and prosperity gospels and how...
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2023
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Practical theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 16, Issue: 6, Pages: 720-733 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church NBH Angelology; demonology |
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Pentecostalism
B Deliverance B misplaced priority B Child witchcraft accusation B Nigeria B Prosperity Theology |
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