RT Book
T1 Blessed: a history of the American prosperity gospel
A1 Bowler, Kate
LA English
PP New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/165671955X
AB 'Blessed' offers a comprehensive history of the rise of the American prosperity gospel. What began as diverse metaphysical, pentecostal, and self-help conceptions about the power of the mind became one of the most influential popular religious movements of the last century. The book follows how the movement took shape after World War II in pentecostal healing revivals and exploded onto the national scene through televangelists with big hair and bigger promises. It survived the scandals of the late 1980s and remade its image as a therapeutic and effective theology of modern living. Now thriving in the 21st century megachurch movement, the prosperity gospel reigns as a full-fledged cultural phenomenon.
OP 337
CN 277.3083
SN 978-0-19-934534-2
K1 Faith movement (Hagin) : United States
K1 Wealth : Religious aspects : Christianity
DO 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199827695.001.0001