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Verbum 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
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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]
Journal 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
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New Technologies and the Supply Chain of African Neo-Pentecostals
Studia 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
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Religion 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
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The 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
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The “Pinkster Kerk” as a Site of Indigenous Religious Expression within Black Pentecostal Theology
The 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
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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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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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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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