Guest Editors' Note

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes “Global Religious Landscape,” Pew Research and Public Life Project, accessed June 2, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/. “Folk Religionists,” Pew Research and Public Life Project, accessed June 2, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-folk/. “A Religious Portrait of African Americans,” Pew Research and Public Life Project, accessed June 2, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/2009/01/30/a-religious-portrait-of-african-americans/. Ibid. “Brazil's Changing Religious Landscape,” Pew Research and Public Life Project, accessed June 2, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/2013/07/18/brazils-changing-religious-landscape/. Benjamin C. Ray, African Religions: Symbol, Ritual and Community (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2000). Col. 3:22. Michael David Coogan et al., The New Oxford Annotated Bible: With the Apocrypha (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). Benjamin C. Ray, African Religions: Symbol, Ritual and Community. Marthenus Daneel, “African Initiated Churches in Southern Africa: Protest Movements or Mission Churches,” in Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicism in the 20th Century, ed. Donald M Lewis (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004), 181–220. “Overview: Pentecostalism in Africa,” Pew Research and Public Life Project, accessed June 3, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/2006/10/05/overview-pentecostalism-in-africa/. “Christian Movements and Denominations,” Pew Research and Public Life Project, accessed June 2, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-movements-and-denominations/. “Overview: Pentecostalism in Latin America,” accessed June 6, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/2006/10/05/overview-pentecostalism-in-latin-america/. “Brazil's Changing Religious Landscape,” accessed June 5, 2014, http://www.pewforum.org/2013/07/18/brazils-changing-religious-landscape/. See for example Jonathan Walton, Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism (NYU Press, 2009); Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, The Black Megachurch: Theology, Gender and the Politics of Public Engagement (Baylor University Press, 2011); C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience (Duke University Press, 1990). Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, The Black Megachurch: Theology, Gender and the Politics of Public Engagement (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011). Warren Bird, “The World's Largest Churches” Leadership Network, accessed June 3, 2014, http://leadnet.org/world/. According to Word of Faith theology donating money through tithes and offerings should be considered both an investment in the givers material prosperity and a sign of the givers faith that God will return the material investment exponentially. According to Paul Gifford in Ghana's New Christianity (2004) Oyedepo is a prototypical “name it and claim it” prosperity preacher. Winners Chapel has locations in several African countries including Ghana, Liberia and Kenya; and also in the U. S. and the U.K. Gifford, Ghana's New Christianity (Indiana University Press). Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs and Donn C. Worgs, “Black Morality Politics: Preachers, Politicians and Voters in the Battle over Same-sex Marriage,” Journal of Black Studies 45 (2014): 338–362, http://jbs.sagepub.com/content/45/4/338 Anthony Pinn, What is African American Religion? (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011). Ibid.