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Development cooperation and Neo-Pentecostal churches – A decolonial perspective
Verbum et EcclesiaReligion 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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, 2021 Recent developments within South African Pentecostalism reveal that a number of pastors in new Prophetic Churches abuse religion and women and engage in other extreme practices of religion.
M.S. Kgatle, Kgatle, M.S.
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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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Spirit-Filled World:Religious Dis/Continuity in African Pentecostalism
, 2018 This book is about African Pentecostalism and its relationship to religious beliefs about a pervading spirit world. It argues that Pentecostalism keeps both a continuous and a discontinuous relationship in tension.
Anderson, Allan, Allan Heaton Anderson
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Ancestors and African Neo-Pentecostals
African Journal of Pentecostal StudiesBackground: 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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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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Spirit and economy: Pentecostalism and the afterlives of Max Weber
, 2012 Includes abstract.Scroll down to electronic link to access the thesis.This thesis investigates the historical intersections between Pentecostalism and Weberian sociology, beginning with the simultaneous publication of Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the
Nogueira-Godsey, Trad
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, 2022 MTh (Dogmatics), North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusAfrican Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, that has become popular within African Christianity.
Moses, Stezron Brandon-Lee
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, 2022 The many emerging aspects of the phenomenon of Pentecostalism continue to invite new research. In this issue we offer full reviews of several important studies of Pentecostalism in Africa.
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E. +6 more
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African Journal of Pentecostal StudiesBackground: 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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