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African Pentecostal Theology

2023
African Pentecostal Theology: Modality, Disciplinarity, and Decolonialityexplores research methodology, theological disciplines, and contextualization as important aspects in the process of studying Pentecostal theology in an African context. Mookgo Solomon Kgatle outlines different data collection and data analysis methods, including the skills of ...
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African Pentecostalism in Diaspora

PentecoStudies, 2010
This article is an attempt to survey the field of African immigrant Christianity so as to put the specifically Pentecostal factor in proper perspective. It points to where scholars have been, are and should be going, and who are the chief conversation partners.
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The Beginnings of African American Pentecostalism

Pneuma, 2023
Abstract African American response to the pentecostal movement began soon after the introduction of the Apostolic Faith to Texas, where the movement experienced its first noticeable success. It spread within the Black community of Houston following the baptism of the Holy Spirit by Holiness minister Lucy Farrow.
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Prosperity and Prophecy in African Pentecostalism

Journal of Pentecostal Theology, 2011
AbstractThis essay discusses how prosperity is understood and articulated in Ghanaian Pentecostal prophetic circles. It seeks to show that in the peripheral prophetism of Pentecostalism, prosperity is perceived as the good life Christ offers those who believe in him. The good life is a religious and social quest of Ghanaians.
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Inaugurated Eschatology within South African Pentecostalism

Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Abstract Pentecostal eschatology differs from one sub-tradition of Pentecostalism to the other in a South African context. Sub-traditions such as classical Pentecostalism and the New Prophetic Churches (npc s) have been engaged in more than one form of eschatology.
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Joshua Chigorimbo
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Women, Rights Talk, and African Pentecostalism

Religious Studies and Theology, 2017
In this essay, I seek to bring a rights perspective to women’s religious leadership and agency in Africa, notably in the case of the newer forms of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity that now predominate in many parts of the continent. Rather than adopting a legal approach, I focus on the concept of “rights talk” which provides a more productive and ...
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African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe

2016
Over the past thirty years, Italy—the historic home of Catholicism—has become a significant destination for migrants from Nigeria and Ghana. Along with suitcases and dreams of a brighter future, these Africans bring their own form of Christianity, Pentecostalism, shaped by their various cultures and religious worlds. At the heart of Annalisa Butticci’s
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Exorcism And Conversion To African Pentecostalism

Exchange, 2006
AbstractThe rapid growth of Pentecostal forms of Christianity in Africa in recent years can partly be attributed to the prevalent practice of exorcism or 'deliverance' that characterises it. This essay considers the phenomenon from the perspective of the African popular religious spirit world, where spirits and 'demons' abound.
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Cancer statistics for African American/Black People 2022

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Angela Giaquinto, Kimberly D Miller, Robert A Winn   +2 more
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Pentecostalism in a South African Township

2018
In this chapter, the micro-context of the township of Soshanguve is discussed, where the interviews and participant observations took place. Particular focus is placed on the social and religious conditions of Soshanguve and the surrounding dormitory townships north of Pretoria in the municipal area of the City of Tshwane in the period from 1990 up to ...
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