Breaking the Spirit of Poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity: A Traction or A Wither?

What is it about?

The ever-increasing poverty situation in Africa is apparently directly proportional to the explosion of Pentecostal Christianity and its promises of prosperity. Staggering in this murky state of hopelessness are masses who frantically attempt to cling to this Pentecostal hope for solace. African governments better placed to tackle poverty through development strategies are manifestly betraying post-independence dreams, hence thriving Pentecostal course. But does Pentecostal discourse deliver social transformation as it promises? Arguably, the answer to this question is unsettled. In its endeavor to deliver its promise Pentecostal Christianity merely offers intangible hope.

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Why is it important?

The article broadly analysis Pentecostal and development discourses across Africa and consequently argues that Pentecostalism is incapable of bringing meaningful social transformation in its current state because it does not address core structural issues that generate social conditions that propagates poverty.