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Ancestors and African Neo-Pentecostals

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: Many Neo-Pentecostals accept the African cultural view that ancestors are active in the daily lives of their offspring. The question is asked whether such contextualisation of the Christian message is admissible. Objectives: This article addresses the issue of contextualisation to make the Christian gospel more acceptable and asks whether ...
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Nyaa, ‘motlhanka wa Jehofa’! (Stop it, ‘man of God’!): An Ubuntu Pentecostal response to gender-based violence within the Neo-prophetic Movement in South Africa

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: Statistics from the Pew Research Centre indicate that in sub-Saharan Africa, 796 million out of 822 m people claim the same Christian religious affiliation. Pentecostal Christians total 107 m.
Abraham M.M. Mzondi
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Neopentecostalismo e religiões afro-brasileiras: Significados do ataque aos símbolos da herança religiosa africana no Brasil contemporâneo

Mana, 2007
Neste trabalho, pretendo analisar as relações de proximidade e antagonismo existentes entre o neopentecostalismo e as religiões afro-brasileiras, e suas conseqüências na transformação do imaginário social brasileiro construído a partir dos valores ...
Vagner Gonçalves da Silva
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Reconsidering Syncretism and Contextualization: The sangoma-Prophet Phenomenon in South African Neo-Prophetic Pentecostalism

Religions
The emergence of African Christianity from missionary tutelage towards the close of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century raised concerns of syncretism that only eased with arguments of contextualisation in the 1970s.
Thabang R. Mofokeng
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The Resurgence of the African Traditional Shrines in a Neo-Pentecostal/Charismatic Religious Milieu in Ghana

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2019
The African shrines have been sources of life and support for the Africans before the emergence of Christianity. When Christianity emerged, it sought to provide alternative sources of life and support as against the African shrines, leading to many forms of encounters between these traditions.
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Rejecting Christ’s Freedom? Sacralisation and Personalisation in African Neo-Pentecostal Prophetism

Religions
The African religiosity that permeates all human existence is driven by a consuming desire for connection with the spiritual world that provides and protects human flourishing. African neo-Pentecostal prophets (ANPPs) respond to this need by imposing themselves as the sacral agents that can connect people to God.
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Immigrant pentecostalism in the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis: reactions and responses from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Berlin. [PDF]

Z Relig Ges Polit, 2022
van der Hoek S.
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Revisiting the Healing Narrative of the Gospel in the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]

Theol Today, 2022
Wijaya Y.
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From Fivefold to Five-in-One Ministry: Mega-Ecclesiological Leadership (Dis)Continuities in Southern Africa

Religions
In Southern Africa in recent years, the governance and ecclesiologies of mega-Pentecostal churches have been drifting away from upholding collective and complementary fivefold ministries to individualistic and selfish five-in-one ministries.
Kimion Tagwirei
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Inferring Cultural Landscapes with the Inverse Ising Model. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2023
Poulsen VM, DeDeo S.
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