Power in Black and Pentecostal: An Engagement with Bretherton

This article focuses on Bretherton's treatment of Pentecostalism and Black Power and how they conceive and challenge notions of democracy, citizenship and capitalism. Recognising the ‘tensional' relationship between democracy and Christianity, I explore his treatment of Pentecostalism and...

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Subtitles:A Symposium on Luke Bretherton’s Christ and the Common Life : Political Theology and the Case for Democracy
Main Author: Muir, R. David (Author)
Contributors: Bretherton, Luke 1968- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2020]
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 253-261
Review of:Christ and the common life (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019) (Muir, R. David)
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
FD Contextual theology
KDG Free church
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Book review
B Black Liberation Theology
B Democracy
B Citizenship
B political engagement
B Intersectionality
B Capitalism
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:This article focuses on Bretherton's treatment of Pentecostalism and Black Power and how they conceive and challenge notions of democracy, citizenship and capitalism. Recognising the ‘tensional' relationship between democracy and Christianity, I explore his treatment of Pentecostalism and capitalism. I am sympathetic to Bretherton's analysis of the socio-political transformation Pentecostalism offers, but point to regressive influences associated with the ‘prosperity gospel'. Relating his treatment of Black Power to the wider ‘Black radical tradition', I conclude with reference to political activism in the UK.
ISSN:0953-9468
Reference:Kritik in "Politics in the Service of Society (2019)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946819897592