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Religions, 2020 South Africa endured racial segregation under the national party for many years until 1994, with the attainment of democracy. In the process of negotiating a democracy like the CODESA negotiations, the ANC-led government found itself adopting economic ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Neo-Pentecostal political activism vis-a-vis good governance in Nigeria: A theological analysis
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 This article presented the Nigerian neo-Pentecostal political activism (NNPA) in the last two decades and its impact on good governance. A brief historical analysis shows that pulpit political activism (PPA) may have catalysed some civil actions by civil
Daniel O. Orogun, Jerry G. Pillay
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2019 The quest for accountability in Christian theology is both immediate and ultimate. This, thus, suggests that individuals and groups within spiritual and secular spaces subscribe to some form of immediate and ultimate probity and accountability assessment.
Babatunde A. Adedibu, Benson O. Igboin
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 The idea for this article was developed in ecumenical discussion regarding the worrisome developments in some neo-Pentecostal ministries where stories of snake-eating, petrol-drinking, false prophecies and so on were being alleged.
Mookgo S. Kgatle, Thabang R. Mofokeng
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Religions, 2018 Scholars of Pentecostalism have usually studied people who embrace it, but rarely those who do not. I suggest that the study of global Pentecostalism should not limit itself to Pentecostal churches and movements and people who consider themselves ...
Marleen de Witte
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Is Africa Godforsaken? Neo-Pentecostal prophetism on African human agency and transcendence
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 African neo-Pentecostal prophets (NPPs) use their prophetic rituals like deliverance services and anointed objects such as anointed oil, to bring God’s presence to people to empower their human agency (power to act) and transcendence (power to overcome). This use of prophetic systems prompts the question: What does the NPPs’ teaching that Africans need
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Changing the Narrative Language of Prosperity in Africa
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2021 Pentecostals’ central theme in proclamation and practice since the beginning of their movement is holistic healing and wellbeing, resulting from what they term the “Full Gospel”. At first, it did not include a prosperous lifestyle.
Marius Nel
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Uncovering Covert Syncretic Holy Water among ANPCs in South Africa
Religions, 2023 In most societies where Christianity is dominant, it has manifested itself in different ways, reflecting its admixture with indigenous religious practices, an admixture commonly seen in most African contexts.
Jonas Thinane
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Going to ‘Pentecost’: how to study Pentecostalism – in Melanesia, for example
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 164-180, March 2018., 2018 Abstract In this article, I question regional context as primary context in anthropological analyses. I argue that the idea of historical continuity in a geographical locality/region might prevent us from understanding not only radical change, but also more gradually emerging social patterns that connect the ethnography to very different kinds of ...
Annelin Eriksen
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Religion without Belief and Community in Africa
Religions, 2019 Religion in Africa is in many respects becoming religion without belief and community again, I will argue in this article. Europeans arriving in Africa did not recognize African religion, because Africans did not have the kind of belief and community ...
Hermen Kroesbergen
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