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Pentecostal spirituality in the context of faith and hope gospel (prosperity preaching): African Pentecostal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

open access: yesDialog, 2022
Abstract Covid‐19 has challenged humanity in several ways and has created the opportunity for reflection on our spirituality and the hope for divine healing of the world, while scientific communities do their best to find solutions to the pandemic from their perspective.
White P.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Unbreakable bonds? The challenge of the motif of adoption to the African neo-Pentecostal belief in generational curses

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2020
The article uses the motif of salvation as adoption as God’s children to critique the African neo-Pentecostal (ANP) belief that generational curses remain on Christians after conversion.
Collium Banda
doaj   +3 more sources

Unsafe spaces? An ecclesiological evaluation and response to recent controversial practices in some South African neo-Pentecostal churches

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2020
From a communal perspective of the church, this article analyses critically the controversial practices reported in some South African neo-Pentecostal (SANP) churches, such as feeding congregants with grass.
Collium Banda
doaj   +2 more sources

Syncretism Narrative and the Use of Material Objects within Some Neo-Pentecostal Circles in Contemporary South Africa

open access: yesReligions, 2023
African Pentecostal Christianity presents interconnectedness with African cultures, spiritualities, and religiosity in many ways. Among many other practices that demonstrate this interconnectedness is the use of material objects common within some ...
Themba Shingange
doaj   +1 more source

Neo-Pentecostalism and Afro-Brazilian religions: explaining the attacks on symbols of the African religious heritage in contemporary Brazil

open access: yesMana, 2007
In this work, I analyze the relations of proximity and antagonism between neo-Pentecostalism and Afro-Brazilian religions, and their consequences for the transformation of the Brazilian social imaginary constructed on the basis of values derived from ...
Vagner Gonçalves da Silva   +1 more
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Transition from the Opium of Religion to Religion as Opioids: Abuse of Religious Teachings in the New Prophetic Churches in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for the Study of Religion, 2023
The New Prophetic Churches is a religion in the mix, demonstrated by their points of contact with classical Pentecostalism, the prosperity gospel, African independent churches, and African traditional religion.
Mookgo S. Kgatle, Jonas S. Thinane
doaj   +1 more source

New Technologies and the Supply Chain of African Neo-Pentecostals

open access: yesStudia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2023
Academic conversation in missional activities revolves around some variables, including spiritual and theological paradigms. Among African Neo-Pentecostal Churches (ANPCs), where miracles and wonders are central to missional activities, it is uncommon to think that excellent delivery in missional service goes beyond power display, miracles and ...
Daniel Orogun, Jerry Pillay
openaire   +2 more sources

Pentecostalism and media in Africa: Theoretical explorations of power and agency of media platforms and their users

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This survey paper interrogates four theoretical frameworks often invoked to analyze intersections between media and religion: mediatization, mediation of meaning, mediation of the beyond, and religious social shaping of technology. The paper surveys several research works informed by the aforementioned theories that study Pentecostals ...
Murtala Ibrahim
wiley   +1 more source

After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 383-395, December 2022., 2022
Abstract How do Pentecostal Christians seek repair and renewal in their lives, after their efforts to rupture with the past and become born again? In this article, I wish to consider the ways that a group of Nigerian Pentecostals who belong to a deliverance church re‐narrativise their lives by constructing and entering into new timelines of history ...
Naomi Richman
wiley   +1 more source

The “Pinkster Kerk” as a Site of Indigenous Religious Expression within Black Pentecostal Theology

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 600-616, October 2022., 2022
Abstract Deploying a decolonial epistemological framework that brings critical race and identity theory into conversation with African and Black theologies, this article explores the phenomenon of Pinkster Kerk as a productive site for indigenous meaning‐making within studies on Black theology and African Pentecostalism.
Johnathan Jodamus
wiley   +1 more source

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