Charismatic Renewal and Neo-Pentecostalism

McClymond, Michael J.

doi:10.1017/cco9780511910111.005

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“…We draw on examples provided by four major churches: the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), the Deeper Life Bible Church (commonly known as ‘Deeper Life’) and Living Faith Church Worldwide (commonly known as ‘Winners’ Chapel’). Apart from the RCCG, which was founded in the 1940s, each is an example of the ‘third wave’ of Pentecostal/charismatic churches that emerged in Africa from the 1980s onwards (for more on such waves, definitional disagreements and the distinctive features of African variants, see, inter alia , Marshall, 2009; McClymond, 2014; Omenyo, 2014; Obadare, 2018). We refer to these churches as examples of ‘neo‐Pentecostalism’ but also point to the differing priorities and urban strategies of each church.…”

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NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics

Millington,

Garbin,

Coleman

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo‐Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity—a transformation not only of inner, ‘private’ lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo‐Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water, healthcare, plus banking and educational facilities as well as a range of residential options. Church emblems are common features of the Lagos streetscape and can be found on buildings, vehicles and advertisement hoardings. In addition to their symbolic, moral and aesthetic register, Pentecostal urban infrastructures can be understood as a response to the crisis of social reproduction in Lagos, within the context of a postcolonial state that has adopted a position of entrenched neoliberalism. Critical questions remain, however, regarding whose interests are served by this arrangement. The article aims to understand (1) the ontological status of neo‐Pentecostal infrastructures, taking seriously the production and delivery of material infrastructures that are understood by some users to also be spiritual; and (2) the novel relations between church, state, market and citizen articulated by these infrastructures. Our arguments are based on qualitative data collected in Lagos between 2018 and 2022.

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confidence: 99%