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Pentecostal theology’s problem (Pt 1 2:2): Maši ke phepa ke le nosi, selabe se tla le motsaya kgamelo – a Setswana proverb

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Decolonisation of theology can be undertaken by engaging African proverbs and idioms. Pentecostalism, although the African Christian phenomenon is exploding, also needs to be decolonised in order to break itself of the western shackles of stereotyping ...
Kelebogile T. Resane
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An Ubuntu Pentecostal Perspective of Pan-Africanism and African Identity

Religions
Clarke provides a critical analysis of Pentecostalism as a tool for attaining the theological and political objectives of Pan-Africanism. However, this seems to suggest that, at least, African Pentecostals and African Pentecostal researchers may not be ...
Abraham Modisa Mkhondo Mzondi
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Realist literature, gender and gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
There is a general consensus among religious scholars that Pentecostalism has risen phenomenally in Africa and Zimbabwe is no exception. In most cases, Pentecostalism has been presented as a sophisticated brand of Christianity while members of African ...
Enna S. Gudhlanga, Angeline M. Madongonda, Molly Manyonganise   +2 more
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“THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE

Acta Theologica, 2020
This article argues that African Neo-Pentecostalism has adopted indigenous notions of sacred authority through the paradigm of modernisation. Employing Rev.
C.J. Kaunda
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Fluid Theologies: Shifts and Changes of African Pentecostalism

Journal for the Study of Religion, 2021
The claim of ‘being led by the Holy Spirit’ has caused African Pentecostals to develop weak fluid theologies. The problem is exacerbated by the deepening of economic inequalities, unstable politics, and poverty.
Nomatter Sande
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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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Consultations in New Prophetic Churches and African Traditional Religions: A Case Study of Divine Healing in Assessing Syncretistic Practices in the South African Context

Religions, 2023
New prophetic churches have a different approach to classical Pentecostalism when it comes to the practice of divine healing. Unlike classical Pentecostalism, new prophetic churches embrace the practice of consulting prophets in divine healing in the ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Spirit Hermeneutics for African Pentecostalism: A Hermeneutic for a Jubilar Mission

Conspectus
The significance of African Pentecostal churches in the global expansion of Christianity is undeniable. However, the impact of African Pentecostalism is being impaired by the problem of materialism. This ailment has come from African Traditional Religion,
Samson Tadelle Demo
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African Pentecostal spirituality as a mystical tradition: How regaining its roots could benefit Pentecostals

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Western academic theology do not succeed in accounting for the identity and faith culture of African Pentecostals for at least two reasons. In the first place, because as part of the Pentecostal movement it grew from the holiness, divine healing and ...
Marius Nel
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Pentecostal Forms across Religious Divides: Media, Publicity, and the Limits of an Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism

Religions, 2018
Scholars of Pentecostalism have usually studied people who embrace it, but rarely those who do not. I suggest that the study of global Pentecostalism should not limit itself to Pentecostal churches and movements and people who consider themselves ...
Marleen de Witte
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