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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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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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Encountering African pentecostalism : methodologies and evolving tendencies [PDF]

African Pentecostal Christianity is one of the fastest-growing movements among other Christian traditions in the world. This makes African Pentecostal Christianity a major contributor to the growth of global Pentecostalism and world Christianity. However,
Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon
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God-talk rhetoric and the abuse of Women in Neo-Pentecostalism: developing the Pentecostal theology of hearing from God [PDF]

One of the tenets of neo-Pentecostalism is the claim of "hearing from God", particularly by neo-Pentecostal pastors and prophets in Africa. It is for this reason that even during the sermon presentation in Neo-Pentecostalism there is an element of “thus ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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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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AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM: THE CHRISTIANITY OF ELIAS LETWABA FROM EARLY YEARS UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1959 [PDF]

, 2017
An enormous body of research has been done on Pentecostal Christianity examining different branches such as classical, African and charismatic Pentecostalism. Most of these studies concentrate on classical Pentecostalism and western personalities.
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon   +1 more
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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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Contemporary Pentecostal churches practice prophecy primarily as inspirational preaching and teaching rather than predictive divination

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: Neo-Pentecostal interpretations of prophecy often emphasise prediction, overlooking its pastoral and political functions. In global Pentecostal networks, prophecy surpasses simple divination, impacting spiritual growth, communal improvement ...
Ndidzulafhi Mudau, Rendani Tshifhumulo
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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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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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