Prosperity and the Therapeutic Turn
This chapter argues that megachurches around the world have taken a therapeutic turn: Self-help has become a dominant theological theme. Aimed at the cultivation of the self, its main premise is that believers can discover and fulfill their potential. Three areas matter to the theology of self-help:...
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ph-ateneo-arc.dev-stud-faculty-pubs-11482024-07-16T05:41:54Z Prosperity and the Therapeutic Turn Cornelio, Jayeel This chapter argues that megachurches around the world have taken a therapeutic turn: Self-help has become a dominant theological theme. Aimed at the cultivation of the self, its main premise is that believers can discover and fulfill their potential. Three areas matter to the theology of self-help: purpose, personal issues, and prosperity. The latter part of the chapter offers sociological explanations that account for the therapeutic turn. It then ends with a critical reflection. Sacralizing self-help fails to confront structural contexts of inequality that engender the very ontological insecurity it wishes to address. 2024-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/148 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003222613-22/prosperity-therapeutic-turn-jayeel-cornelio Development Studies Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology Sociology of Religion |
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This chapter argues that megachurches around the world have taken a therapeutic turn: Self-help has become a dominant theological theme. Aimed at the cultivation of the self, its main premise is that believers can discover and fulfill their potential. Three areas matter to the theology of self-help: purpose, personal issues, and prosperity. The latter part of the chapter offers sociological explanations that account for the therapeutic turn. It then ends with a critical reflection. Sacralizing self-help fails to confront structural contexts of inequality that engender the very ontological insecurity it wishes to address. |
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