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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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On the Potential and Problems of Pentecostal Exchange

, 2013
In this article, I draw on ethnography from the Zambian Copperbelt to examine the social productivity of the Pentecostal prosperity gospel, a Christian movement centered on the idea that it is God's will for believers to be wealthy.
Haynes, Naomi, Naomi Haynes
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Critiquing white ecclesial leadership in multiracial South African neo-Pentecostalism

, 2023
Magister Theologiae - MThAfter twenty seven years of democracy in South Africa, many strides have been made in addressing equity, diversity and racial unity within the landscape of religious institutions.
Shabangu, Cameron
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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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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
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‘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
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Special Section: Book Reviews: Spirit-Filled World: Religious Dis/Continuity in African Pentecostalism

, 2022
[In recounting the growth of Pentecostalism in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular reference to South Africa, Anderson’s book demonstrates that this process has been shaped both by Pentecostalism’s continuity with African cultural beliefs and its ...
Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon
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Africa Pentecostalized? Understanding the African appropriation of Pentecostalism in light of African perspectives [PDF]

, 2013
I want to prepare an understanding of why Pentecostalism seems to be so attractive in Africa. I will outline Ogbu Kalu's understanding of a resonance between African traditional culture and Pentecostalism, and then add perspectives from other African
Østhassel, Ole Aleksander
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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
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