PENTECOSTAL OIKONOMIA: THEO-ECONOMIC REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION AND NEOLIBERALISM

Abstract

This article reviews recent debates on economic theology and explores the analytical productivity of this concept to reflect on the contemporary relationship between neo-Pentecostalism and neo-liberalism takes as an ethnographic reference the discipleship networks of the Ghanaian denomination Lighthouse Chapel International and its successful apostolic project of transnational replication in branches. The economic theology of this organization is approached through the resonances between Christian methods of government and neoliberal rationality subjectivity and devices, such as human capital, immaterial and affective work and emotion management skills.

Keywords:
Economic theology; neopentecostalism; neoliberalism; Ghana