Attention!
If you are registering for this event but cannot attend in person, the event will be simulcasted live on both afternoons. The weekend before the event, all registered persons will receive an email with information on where to log into in order to view the simulcast.
Pentecostalism & Prosperity Symposium
The Socio-Economics of Global Renewal
Co-sponsored by the Schools of Undergraduate Studies and Divinity
Symposium schedule:
February 21, 2:00-5:30 pm, Library Auditorium
February 22, 2:00-5:30 pm, Library Auditorium
This symposium focuses on the interface of Renewal Christianity, the prosperity gospel, and the global economy. It brings together a group of scholars from various disciplines to consider:
- the theological and religious rationalizations for prosperity movements, including case studies of Renewal movements across the global South;
- the relationship between economic considerations and conversion to the Renewal movement in general and to prosperity teaching more particularly;
- the phenomenology of a "prosperity lifestyle": spending decisions, investment strategies, and the accrual of social or political capital from association with Renewal Christianity and its prosperity segments;
- how the prosperity message both is shaped by and also contributes to the current neoliberal economy on local and global scales;
- the relationship, if any, between the expansion of prosperity messages and economic booms and recessions.
