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Negotiating faith in exile: Learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda

Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 114-125, February 2025.
Abstract Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. Partnerships are increasingly promoted through international declarations and bespoke toolkits. Such approaches are abstracted from the historical and contemporary contexts through which faith is negotiated, and through which faith actors ...
Elizabeth Storer
wiley   +1 more source

‘Minding the pentecostal paradox’: Currents and cross‐currents in pentecostal studies in Africa (PenteSA)

Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract Employing the pentecostal paradox motif, this survey engages the literature on African Pentecostalism across a spectrum of disciplines in both humanities and social sciences. Utilising a thematic cluster as analytical approach, the study posits that African Pentecostalism represents a decolonial shift from an era of mere beliefs to the era of ...
Chammah J. Kaunda
wiley   +1 more source

NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 365-385, May 2024.
Abstract This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo‐Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity—a transformation not only of inner, ‘private’ lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo‐Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water,
Gareth Millington, David Garbin, Simon Coleman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pentecostal Theology

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
A Pentecostal theology distinct from other Christian traditions was evident from the start of the modern-day Pentecostal revivals that occurred worldwide at the turn to the twentieth century.
Wolfgang Vondey
doaj  

Pentecostal ecumenical impulses: Past and present challenges

In die Skriflig, 2018
Several leaders in the early Pentecostal movement interpreted the outpouring of the Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission and other places as a sign that the Spirit would now unite Christians across the borders of denominations in a new Pentecost that ...
Marius Nel
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West African Neo-Pentecostal Perspectives on God’s Immutability and Changeability

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
This article explores West African neo-Pentecostal perspectives on God’s immutability and changeability by analysing the perspectives of leading indigenous neo-Pentecostals in Ghana and Nigeria. The paper’s importance stems from its neo-Pentecostal delineation of God’s immutable nature and its proposition of God’s relational receptiveness to his ...
Eric Manu, Emmanuel Kojo Ennin Antwi, Isaac Karkari Osei   +2 more
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Pentecostal Reinventions of the Passover: Contextual Reflections on the End of Year Night Worship Festivals in Uganda

Journal for the Study of Religion
Pentecostal scholarship in and about Africa is a vibrant arena in world Christianity, with an upswing in the proliferation of scholarly works on Pentecostal Churches and its centrality in the political and social fabric of African societies ...
Alexander Paul Isiko, Enock Kisekka
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Doctrine as security? A systematic theological critique of the operational theological framework of the controversial South African neo-Pentecostal prophets

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This research article uses the theoretical framework of doctrine as believer’s security to critique the theological framework behind the controversial activities reported amongst some South African neo-Pentecostal prophets (NPPs), which include feeding congregants with grass, spraying them with insecticides and sexual violation of women congregants ...
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Development cooperation and Neo-Pentecostal churches – A decolonial perspective

Verbum et Ecclesia
Religion and development are a subject that has stimulated researchers in the recent past. Most of the religious role players in development within sub-Saharan Africa have been the historic missional churches, also known as the mainline churches – mostly
Mangaliso M. Matshobane
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Whatever happened to God’s holiness? The holiness of God and the theological authenticity of the South African neo-Pentecostal prophetic activities

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021
The controversial activities of the neo-Pentecostal prophets (NPPs) in South Africa raise many theological questions. From a systematic theological perspective that affirms the importance of Christian doctrines in regulating church worship and practice, this article uses God’s holiness to evaluate the theological authenticity of the NPPs’ controversial
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