(Sustainable) development through deliverance (ministry) in West Africa?

Stanislaw Grodz

doi:10.18290/rt.21689.8

Stanislaw Grodz Anthropos Institut

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rt.21689.8

Keywords: African Initiated Churches, Neopentecostalism, sustainable development, deliverance ministry

Abstract

One might wonder what both matters named in the title have in common because they belong to two rather different world perceptions. In the conclusion of his latest book (2015) Paul Gifford still insisted that development – conceived according to the Western secularised perception – was hardly possible there, where people continue operating within the “enchanted” worldview. It seems, however, that this “impossibility” may actually become possible, although through quite a surprising twist of mind called “decolonisation of development”.

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