Destiny : the life and times of a self-made apostle / Peter Lineham.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: Auckland : Penguin Books, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Whakaahuatanga: 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780143568919
- 0143568914
- 289.95 23
- BR1480 .L56 2013
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Nonfiction | South LibraryPlus Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 289.95 LIN (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | 1 | Wātea | A00706720 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Enough is enough -- The life of Brian -- Beginnings in the Apostolic Church -- Creating a new movement -- Getting known : Destiny Television -- The Branches and the Denomination -- The Apostle and his teaching -- Moralising -- Destiny Party -- Pentecostal pressures -- Maori Church -- Playing politics again -- The followers -- Community -- The prosperity gospel -- Financing the movement -- The cult -- The City of God and the future of Destiny.
While Desnity Church began in 1998, it rose to notoriety in 2004 with it's 'Enough is enough' march against what it deemed society's declining moral standards. Destiny and its leader Brian Tamaki have since become a significant ot controversial presence in New Zealand's religious, political and Maori worlds.
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