The Personal is Political: Pentecostal Approaches to Governance and Security

Bartelink, Brenda

doi:10.1080/15570274.2020.1795399

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“…Gregory N. Price https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0834-9464 Brooks Robinson https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-193X Notes 1. For example, Black Pentecostalism may have enabled Black socioeconomic empowerment within a very ascetic lifestyle (Bartelink, 2020;Hollenweger, 1973) : 1979 -1980, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, and 1992. The first wave was administered to 2,125 individuals.…”

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Did Elijah Muhammad's Message To the Black Man Uplift Adherents? The Treatment Effects of Membership In The Nation of Islam

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Robinson²

2022

The Review of Black Political Economy

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Established in 1930, the Nation of Islam (NOI) offered uplift to the wellbeing of Black Americans. Its charismatic leader, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, articulated how membership in the NOI would improve the well-being of Black Americans. We consider the impact of NOI membership on several measures of individual well-being. Using data from the first wave of the National Survey of Black Americans, we appeal to the Rubin Causal Framework to estimate the treatment effect of being a member of the NOI on certain outcomes: e.g., overall socioeconomic status, self-employment, self-esteem, and health status. To enable causal interpretation, we estimate the treatment parameters by matching on observable covariates that are not affected by the treatment. Treatment parameter estimates suggest that, at least in the late 1970s, had the NOI been able to expand its membership, new adherents would have benefited from enhanced Black identity, a higher likelihood of not having common health problems, and a lower likelihood of hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and incarceration. Our findings suggest that the NOI could have had a substantial impact on the individual well-being of Black Americans if it were larger, and that NOI-like organizations can help mitigate race-based inequalities in well-being.

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“… 1. For example, Black Pentecostalism may have enabled Black socioeconomic empowerment within a very ascetic lifestyle (Bartelink, 2020; Hollenweger, 1973), but it was not as restrictive as the NOI's, and Pentecostalism did not provide directly a broad program for economic uplift for Black Americans relative to the NOI.…”

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Did Elijah Muhammad's Message To the Black Man Uplift Adherents? The Treatment Effects of Membership In The Nation of Islam

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Robinson²

2022

The Review of Black Political Economy

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“…In addition, biblical passages are interpreted in an entirely functionalist way, aimed at justifying the accumulation of riches and self-realization in this world, without the prospect of eschatological salvation. This way, the Church becomes a big supermarket where one can satisfy one's needs in life, while religion is transformed into a strictly pragmatic and utilitarian phenomenon (Jones and Woodbridge 2010; see also Bartelink 2020).…”

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Ethical Aspects of the Prosperity Gospel in the Light of the Arguments Presented by Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa

Kobyliński

2021

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The main aim of the article is to analyze the Prosperity Gospel as an important element of the contemporary pentecostalization of Christianity. The essence of this global process is the emergence of thousands of new Pentecostal denominations and the transformation of other traditional churches into a single, syncretic variety of charismatic Christianity on a global scale. Pentecostal religiosity is characterized, among other things, by prayer in tongues, miracles, exorcisms, healing services, etc. Another key element of this new syncretic religiosity is the Prosperity Gospel which represents the belief that faith may lead to wealth, health and prosperity, and the lack of it ends in poverty, disease, and misfortune. Critics of this new religiosity point out that God must not be seen merely as a realizer of human dreams of happiness, health and wealth. The first part of the article discusses the specific nature of the global process of the pentecostalization of Christianity. It then goes on to present an interpretation of the most important elements of the Prosperity Gospel. In the next part of the article, various charges against the Prosperity Gospel are analyzed, including arguments presented in the widely commented articles that Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa published on this topic in 2017–2018.

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Ghanaian Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches, Women, and the Challenge of Masculinity

Nrenzah

2024

Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies

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The Personal is Political: Pentecostal Approaches to Governance and Security

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Did Elijah Muhammad's Message To the Black Man Uplift Adherents? The Treatment Effects of Membership In The Nation of Islam

Did Elijah Muhammad's Message To the Black Man Uplift Adherents? The Treatment Effects of Membership In The Nation of Islam

Ethical Aspects of the Prosperity Gospel in the Light of the Arguments Presented by Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa

Ghanaian Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches, Women, and the Challenge of Masculinity

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