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Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/72549 Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare McNeill, Fraser G. tarujosiah@gmail.com Taru, Josiah UCTD Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity Money Wealth Zimbabwe Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria 2019. This thesis examines the entanglements and interactions between OMG – a Charismatic Pentecostal Church and the post-colonial Zimbabwean state through an ethnographic analysis of church members' everyday lives. I focus on money and consumption, and make several arguments in an attempt to explain the rapid expansion of OMG. Whilst the study adopts a political economy approach in framing the conditions under which the church emerged, I place Pentecostal Charismatic belief and experience at the centre of the analysis. Money and commodity consumption have been creatively incorporated into OMG belief systems and doctrines at a time when the Zimbabwean economy is performing poorly, and poverty is an everyday reality for most of the population. The consumption of commodities has religious significance inasmuch as it is a critique of the post- independence government that has largely failed to improve the lives of Zimbabweans. In consuming commodities, OMG congregants set themselves apart from non-members and construct themselves as ‘blessed’ and thriving. I argue that the mismanagement of the postcolonial state has provided crevices and clefts through which OMG has emerged and grown as a proxy to the state by appropriating aspects of state and chieftaincy rituals. Secondly, OMG offers alternative social spaces for citizens to be - or to appear to be - upwardly mobile and construct a sense of common identity based on religion, history and belonging. Human Economy Programme University of Pretoria for the Post-Graduate Doctoral Bursary – Humanities FlyHigher@UP grant Anthropology and Archaeology PhD Unrestricted 2019-12-09T13:40:45Z 2019-12-09T13:40:45Z 2020-04 2019 Thesis Taru, J 2019, Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72549> A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72549 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity Money Wealth Zimbabwe Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare |
| title | Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare |
| title_full | Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare |
| title_fullStr | Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare |
| title_full_unstemmed | Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare |
| title_short | Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare |
| title_sort | money wealth and consumption among pentecostal charismatic christians in harare |
| topic | UCTD Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity Money Wealth Zimbabwe |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72549 |