‘Me I no go suffer’: Christian songs and prosperity gospel among Yoruba Pentecostals in Southwest Nigeria

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/14755610.2022.2140173
Toyin Samuel Ajose
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ABSTRACT Songs are used to enshrine social and religious ideologies among members of any society whether traditional or modern. In the Christian domain, there exist varieties of theologies and doctrines through which Christian values and virtues are taught and propagated. The prosperity gospel is one of such doctrines and it has received growing interest among scholars in African Pentecostalism, especially in Nigeria. While extant literature has focused largely on the religious, social and economic contributions to the growth and spread of prosperity gospel, the role of music, particularly songs, in the discourse of prosperity theology is yet to be explored. Hence, this paper discusses how Christian prayer songs are used to circulate the prosperity gospel among Yoruba Pentecostals in Nigeria. Data for this study were collected from selected popular Christian prayer songs in southwestern Nigeria which were then analysed. This article submits that Yoruba Pentecostals, in addition to diverse biblical engagements on prosperity themes, have always creatively employed Christian prayer songs in their hermeneutics of prosperity gospel within their cultural praxis.
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“我不受苦”:尼日利亚西南部约鲁巴五旬节派基督徒的基督教歌曲和成功福音
无论是传统社会还是现代社会,歌曲都被用来向社会成员传达社会和宗教意识形态。在基督教领域,存在着各种各样的神学和教义,通过这些神学和教义,基督教的价值观和美德被教导和传播。成功福音就是这样的教义之一,它在非洲的五旬节派学者中引起了越来越多的兴趣,尤其是在尼日利亚。虽然现存的文献主要集中在宗教、社会和经济对成功神学的增长和传播的贡献上,但音乐,特别是歌曲,在成功神学的话语中所扮演的角色还有待探索。因此,本文讨论了基督教祈祷歌曲是如何在尼日利亚约鲁巴五旬节派中传播成功福音的。这项研究的数据是从尼日利亚西南部选定的流行基督教祈祷歌曲中收集的,然后对其进行分析。这篇文章提出,约鲁巴五旬节派,除了不同的圣经参与繁荣的主题,一直创造性地使用基督教祈祷歌曲在他们的文化实践中成功福音的解释学。
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