![]() Western scholarship on the subject has useful insights for the Muslim policy makers on religion based economy. It touches the originality of religion and economy and their nature of relationship including their independence and dependence. ![]() The subject of relationship between religion and economy raises many issues. ![]() ![]() Showing that modernity is mediated by historical and cultural backgrounds of the society it encounters the essay argues for the potency of the “multiple modernities” paradigm as a better analytical framework for the prosperity gospel in Africa. Does the prosperity gospel demonstrate distinctively modern and anti-modern (or anti-western) themes? Drawing insights from the Akan cultural concepts of well-being, dualistic view of life, and the role of religious functionaries, this essay develops a sustained critique of the classical Eurocentric and unilinear view of modernity used in assessing the prosperity gospel. On the other hand, so-called “enchanted” forms of prosperity refute Weber’s central claim of modern societies. On one hand, the phenomenon inspires entrepreneurship and individual autonomy. ![]() Scholars have persistently invoked Weber’s Protestant Ethic yet findings reveal the prosperity gospel in Africa challenges dominant conceptualizations of modernity. The role of African Neo-Pentecostalism in effecting modernity through its widespread “prosperity gospel” remains inconclusive. ![]()
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