Western modernity as culture, ii

Western modernity as culture, ii

Ryan Schram

Mills 169, A26

ryan (dot) schram (at) sydney.edu.au

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/1002/8.2

Reading

Haynes, Naomi. 2015. “‘Zambia Shall Be Saved!’: Prosperity Gospel Politics in a Self-Proclaimed Christian Nation.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 19 (1): 5–24. doi:10.1525/nr.2015.19.1.5.

The idea of "modernity" is cultural

Christianity as site of conjuncture

Christianity is based on individualism

Prosperity theology is individualism without asceticism

Decolonization and development

Modernization

Globalization

The Zambian Copperbelt

Zambia went from a success story to a very poor country. It is not underdeveloped; it was developed and then went into decline because of its position in a post-Fordist, global capitalist system (see Ferguson 1999).

The social context of prosperity theology

References

Ferguson, James. 1999. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Haynes, Naomi. 2013. “On the Potential and Problems of Pentecostal Exchange.” American Anthropologist 115 (1): 85–95. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01537.x.

A guide to the unit

 

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