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Spirit Owners, Ethno‐Racial Critique, and Indigenous Land Struggle in Brazil

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT This article ethnographically explores how the land conflict between Indigenous protesters and agribusiness complexes in Brazil offers insights for critically reevaluating matters of property and belonging—namely, ethno‐racial critiques of who belongs where and what belongs to whom.
LaShandra Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

African Pentecostal spirituality as a mystical tradition: How regaining its roots could benefit Pentecostals

open access: yesHTS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Negotiating faith in exile: Learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 114-125, February 2025.
Abstract Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. Partnerships are increasingly promoted through international declarations and bespoke toolkits. Such approaches are abstracted from the historical and contemporary contexts through which faith is negotiated, and through which faith actors ...
Elizabeth Storer
wiley   +1 more source

Pentecostal Forms across Religious Divides: Media, Publicity, and the Limits of an Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism

open access: yesReligions, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Pentecostalism in a rural context: dynamics of religion and development in Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Pentecostal Christianity originated as an urban movement in America, and as it spread to Africa it was initially taken up most enthusiastically in towns and capital cities.
Freeman, Dena
core   +1 more source

Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 3, no. 4 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Paul David Zakayo Kivuli. 2. Successors to the Aladura Trailblazers
Ayegboyin, Deji   +2 more
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Roundtable: Pentecostalism and Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article revisits central questions arising from Pentecostal actors’ development practices. These were raised during the final panel discussion of the 2014 GloPent conference on “Pentecostalism and Development”.
Akhazemea, Daniel   +5 more
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Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 3, Page 408-421, September 2024.
Abstract When nine Ghanaian banks collapsed during the country's 2017–2019 financial crisis, a Charismatic Pentecostal pastor was at the center of public accusations as the board chairman of one of the failed banks. His role put a spotlight on the growing influence of Charismatic Pentecostal institutions and elites in Ghana's financial market. Shifting
Anna‐Riikka Kauppinen, Girish Daswani
wiley   +1 more source

‘When Faith Is Not Enough’: Encounters between African Indigenous Religious Practices and Prophetic Pentecostal Movements in Zimbabwe

open access: yesReligions
African Pentecostalism remains the fastest growing form of Christianity on the African continent. Scholarship on Zimbabwean Pentecostalism has noted how the emergence of New Pentecostal Movements (NPMs), specifically Prophetic Pentecostalism (PP), has ...
Molly Manyonganise
doaj   +1 more source

Original biographies from the Dictionary of African Christian Biography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. The editors are pleased to offer the first annual cumulative volume of the Journal of African
Allen, Gabriel Leonard   +14 more
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