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Developing the Scholarship of Ecclesiastical and Ecumenical Engagements in African Pentecostal Studies [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Engaged scholarship (also known as scholarship of engagement) is an approach to developing knowledge that values the interactions between the academy and the relevant communities.
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Integration in the early black Pentecostal community: a basis for social action in a post-1994 South Africa [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022
Early Pentecostalism in South Africa followed the pattern of the 1906 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, United States of America in uniting people in their diversity.
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Allan Anderson’s African Pentecostalism theology and the ‘othering’

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
Allan Heaton Anderson is one of the few white South Africans who succeeded in getting out of the entrapment of racial prejudices when it came to the written history of African-initiated churches. He became aware of the fact that an authentic theology can
Selaelo T. Kgatla
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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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Hybrid Leadership in African Neo-Pentecostalism

Religions, 2023
Across institutions and professions, leadership philosophy is considered the driver of organisational culture in achieving the overall objectives. Although individuals’ leadership cultures may vary, intersections and hybridity are present in many spheres,
Daniel O. Orogun
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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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The Indigenous provenance of missio spiritus and the expansion of African Pentecostalism

Ecclesial Futures
  Missio spiritus has been theorized and conceptualized as part of the broader mission of the triune God but not emphasized as an indigenous force within the context of African Pentecostalism. This article aimed to accentuate the indigenous provenance
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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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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