ISBN10: 0199827699, ISBN13: 9780199827695, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 352 pages. How have millions of American Christians come to m easure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word o f Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosp erity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully expl ore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoni ng movement that now claims millions of followers in America. Bow ler traces the roots of the prosperity gospel: from the touring m esmerists, metaphysical sages, pentecostal healers, business orac les, and princely prophets of the early 20th century; through mid -century positive thinkers like Norman Vincent Peale and revivali sts like Oral Roberts and Kenneth Hagin; to today's hugely succes sful prosperity preachers. Bowler focuses on such contemporary fi gures as Creflo Dollar, pastor of Atlanta's 30,000-member World C hangers Church International; Joel Osteen, known as the smiling p reacher, with a weekly audience of seven million; T. D. Jakes, na med by Time magazine one of America's most influential new religi ous leaders; Joyce Meyer, evangelist and women's empowerment guru ; and many others. At almost any moment, day or night, the Americ an public can tune in to these preachers-on TV, radio, ...

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