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What many people are witnessing across African Christianity today cannot be explained by familiar labels. It is not simply charismatic expression or excessive Pentecostal zeal. Something deeper is unfolding. In much of Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Nigeria, Christianity is being reshaped into an emerging hybrid spiritual economy. Christian language, Scripture, and prayer now operate alongside power-seeking metaphysics, traditional spiritual technologies, fear-driven cosmology, and modern market logic. The surface remains Christian, but the internal logic has shifted. This book examines that shift. Rather than focusing on salvation, holiness, or character formation, this new spiritual system is oriented toward control of outcomes. Faith becomes a method. Prayer becomes a technique. Rituals function as technologies designed to produce protection, success, healing, fertility, or dominance. God is no longer encountered primarily as sovereign, but treated as a force to be activated, pressured, or bypassed when results delay. Through careful analysis, this book maps how meaning gives way to power, how spiritual causality replaces social explanation, and how religious leaders increasingly function as technicians and power brokers rather than shepherds. It explores the use of ritual assignments, symbolic acts, and fear-based instruction, showing how they work psychologically, culturally, and economically within deeply rooted indigenous cosmologies of exchange and sacrifice. The book also examines the moral consequences of this shift: the erosion of ethical boundaries, the neutrality of power, the instrumental use of Scripture, and the rise of a religious marketplace sustained by fear, silence, and unmet insecurity. It shows how these systems are no longer confined to Africa, but are being exported through migration into Western cities, where legal and cultural blind spots allow them to flourish. At the heart of the book is a central question: Where does the power actually come from? Is it biblical, psychological, metaphysical, traditional spiritualism, social conditioning, fear-driven expectation, or something else entirely? This is not a polemic. It does not seek to condemn African Christianity or dismiss spiritual experience. It does not preach a solution or offer easy answers. Instead, it provides a diagnostic account of how power, belief, fear, and control now operate under Christian language. Written for pastors, scholars, thoughtful believers, and readers seeking clarity beyond growth narratives and revival slogans, this book offers a clear-eyed examination of a system that has become normal by remaining unnamed. It does not tell readers what to think. It helps them see. Uwem Essia is an author who writes thoughtfully about Christianity and the ways faith is practiced in everyday life. His work emphasizes discernment, clarity, and careful reflection, inviting readers to examine belief with honesty and humility. In this book, he offers a calm and compassionate exploration of the spiritual forces shaping contemporary African Christianity, encouraging deeper understanding without condemnation.

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