How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical wellbeing? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowlers Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoning movement that now claims millions of followers in America. Bowler traces the roots of the prosperity gospel from the touring mesmerists, metaphysical sages, pentecostal healers, business oracles, and princely prophets of the early 20th century through midcentury positive thinkers like Norman Vincent Peale and revivalists like Oral Roberts and Kenneth Hagin to todays hugely successful prosperity preachers. Bowler focuses on such contemporary figures as Creflo Dollar, pastor of Atlantas 30,000member World Changers Church International Joel Osteen, known as "the smiling preacher," with a weekly audience of seven million T. D. Jakes, named by Time magazine one of Americas most influential new religious leaders Joyce Meyer, evangelist and womens empowerment guru and many others. At almost any moment, day or night, the American public can tune in to these preacherson TV, radio, podcasts, and in their megachurchesto hear the message that God desires to bless them with wealth and health. Bowler offers an interpretive framework for scholars and...

Binding: Hardcover;350 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 708 g; Dimensions: 242 x 156 x 26

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