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Struggling Along in Nigeria: Depression, Treatment, and Morality
Ethos, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 184-207, July 2022., 2022 Abstract In this article, we analyze the multiple ways of moral being with depression in urban Nigeria, including those of the ethnographer. This approach fits recent theorizing in moral anthropology and mental health that aims at uncovering how mental illness and ethical being come into being in between patients and meaningful others.
Merel Otto, Eva van Roekel
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Pentecostalism and heteronormative God-talk in modern South Africa: A decolonial approach
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 This article reflects on the use of heteronormative God-talk within African Pentecostalism in modern South Africa. God-talk has often been used as a tool to push specific socio-political ideologies within the global community and in discourses about ...
Themba Shingange
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Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization from Samba to Carnaval Gospel
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 324-353, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing carnaval parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments.
Martijn Oosterbaan
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Allan Anderson’s African Pentecostalism theology and the ‘othering’
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Allan Heaton Anderson is one of the few white South Africans who succeeded in getting out of the entrapment of racial prejudices when it came to the written history of African-initiated churches. He became aware of the fact that an authentic theology can
Selaelo T. Kgatla
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Neo-Pentecostalism and gender-based violence before and during COVID-19 in South Africa
In die Skriflig, 2023 Pentecostal Christians in Africa preach a pragmatic gospel that attempts to address social, practical and contextual concerns. Similar patterns may be seen in the emergence of neo-Pentecostalism in South Africa and other parts of the continent.
Themba Shingange
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Religions, 2022 The great commission, as traditionally understood in Christendom, has been the core basis for church growth. Passion for the lost, evangelism outreach, conversions, and baptism followed by congregating, have culminated in church establishments ...
Peter White, Simbarashe Pondani
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Religions, 2020 This study explores the ways in which the born-again traditional leaders in Zambia are redefining neo-Pentecostal interaction with nonhuman creation. It demonstrates their attempts to rapture new religious imaginations in interstitial spaces between neo ...
Chammah Judex Kaunda
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Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2021 This article is based on a research study that investigated the influence, merits and demerits of the link between African and American Neo-Pentecostalism. The study employed a qualitative research method through which 40 contemporary African Neo-Pentecostal leaders (drawn from South Africa and Nigeria) were interviewed.
Daniel Orogun, Jerry Pillay
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The phenomenon of human conscience
In die Skriflig, 2019 No abstract available.
Marius Nel
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abuse of spiritual authority among some African Neo-Pentecostals and its impact on human rights
Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2023 As a part of the newer versions of the Pentecostal movement that evolved from the 1980s to date, the African Neo-Pentecostals (ANP) are characterised by the practice of spiritual authority (SA). Through the explanatory sequential model of mixed research method which involves juxtaposing a few qualitative pieces of evidence with quantitative empirical ...
Daniel Orogun, Jerry Pillay
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