PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lauterbach, Karen
TI  - Wealth and Worth
AID  - 10.3368/gs.9.1.91
DP  - 2006 Jan 01
TA  - Ghana Studies
PG  - 91--121
VI  - 9
IP  - 1
4099  - https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/9/1/91.short
4100  - https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/9/1/91.full
SO  - Gha Stu2006 Jan 01; 9
AB  - The concern of this article is how neo-Pentecostal pastors build up wealth and status in Kumasi, Ghana. The argument is that neo-Pentecostal ideas of wealth appeal to pastors as well as church membership, because it enables a certain form of entrepreneurship on the one hand and relate to more established ideas of social mobility and status in Asante on the other. I also point out that the way wealth has been perceived in scholarship on neo-Pentecostalism is narrow in the sense that is merely looks upon wealth in terms of money and commodities. I argue that wealth in the case of pastors should be seen in a broader context to include aspects such as time and presence of people and social relations. By analysing specific cases and events I propose that pastors and church members invest in social relations and networking to attain wealth.