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Creating the Complexo de Israel: Religion, Urban Orders, and Aesthetics in Rio de Janeiro

City &Society, Volume 37, Issue 2, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This article centers on the relation between religion, criminal(ized) economies, and the production of urban space in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our empirical focus lies on the Israel Complex, a cluster of favelas located in the city's northern periphery.
Jolien van Veen, Martijn Oosterbaan
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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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Ndadhinhiwa (I am fed up): A Missiological Framing of the Gendered Notions of African Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe [PDF]

, 2021
Pentecostalism remains one of the fastest growing forms of Christianity on the African continent. Early scholarship on African Pentecostalism had shown it to be gender inclusive.
Manyonganise, Molly
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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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‘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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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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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 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
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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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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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