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Reclaiming the essence of Pentecostalism for revitalising faith formation in South African churches

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: Pentecostalism has significantly shaped the landscape of Christianity in South Africa. However, concerns have been raised that certain independent Pentecostal churches have strayed from the movement’s original theological and missionary ...
Ronele M. Prince, Johannes J. Knoetze
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Syncretism Narrative and the Use of Material Objects within Some Neo-Pentecostal Circles in Contemporary South Africa

Religions, 2023
African Pentecostal Christianity presents interconnectedness with African cultures, spiritualities, and religiosity in many ways. Among many other practices that demonstrate this interconnectedness is the use of material objects common within some ...
Themba Shingange
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Power-Purity Pneumatology for African Pentecostalism

African Theological Journal for Church and Society
Africa once again occupies a strategic place in the history of Christianity as one of its chief centres when the religion is somewhat receding in the West.
Abel A. Alamu
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The shifting landscape of African-Pentecostalism in Kenya

Theologia Viatorum, 2022
I define African Pentecostalism as the Pentecostal thread that embraces some elements of African culture, without necessarily admitting it. It embraces some elements of the African heritage consciously or unconsciously.
Julius M. Gathogo
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An Indigenous Force of Pentecostalism in Africa: Indigenous Knowledge System Approach to Decolonization [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023
Pentecostalism in Africa has many expressions, types, and shadows contributing to the challenge of categorisations in the movement. There are some forms of Pentecostalism in Africa that resemble the American context in terms of theology and practice ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Peculiarities in the Pentecostal tradition: Disciplinal and decolonial perspectives in a South African context

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is discussed here from disciplinal and decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored to show that Pentecostalism is part of ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Serving the needy from the greedy: Reviewing Diakonia in African neo-Pentecostalism

In die Skriflig, 2023
When the economy turned downwards across most African nations over the past two decades hitherto today, multifarious neo-Pentecostal churches correspondingly multiplied in and beyond the Global South.
Kimion Tagwirei
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Looking Back: Theological Reflections on the Intersection between Pentecostalism and Ubuntu within the African Section of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa

Religions, 2023
Syncretism in the African section of South African Pentecostalism followed the emergence of the Ethiopian movement. The latter took the lead in promoting the syncretising of Christianity and African culture and practice (hereinafter referred to as Ubuntu)
Abraham Modisa Mkhondo Mzondi
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Invigorating Interfaith Consciousness for the Common Good: Reimagining the Role of African Religion and Pentecostalism in Contemporary South Africa

Religions, 2023
Contemporary South Africa reflects complex, diverse, and evolving religious realities. Changes continue to manifest at the confluence of encounters between various religions and rapid changes in social institutions that affect, in one way or another ...
Gallous Atabongwoung, Johannes M. Lütz, Denise A. Austin   +2 more
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African Pentecostalism from African Perspectives [PDF]

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