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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

Spirit-Filled World:Religious Dis/Continuity in African Pentecostalism

open access: yes, 2018
This book is about African Pentecostalism and its relationship to religious beliefs about a pervading spirit world. It argues that Pentecostalism keeps both a continuous and a discontinuous relationship in tension.
Anderson, Allan, Allan Heaton Anderson
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Spirit Hermeneutics for African Pentecostalism: A Hermeneutic for a Jubilar Mission

open access: yesConspectus
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
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

African Pentecostalism, the Bible, and Cultural Resilience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The study investigates the resilience of Shona religion and culture among ZAOGA Pentecostal Christians. It endeavours to establish whether the Pentecostal Christians in Zimbabwe, through a case study of ZAOGA, have embraced aspects of Shona traditional ...
Biri, Kudzai
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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

Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 7, no. 4 (Oct. 2022) A quarterly publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.DACB.org)

open access: yes, 2022
The many emerging aspects of the phenomenon of Pentecostalism continue to invite new research. In this issue we offer full reviews of several important studies of Pentecostalism in Africa.
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.   +6 more
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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

Demonology, eschatology and vaccinology in African independent Pentecostalism

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2022
Public discourses on the reliability of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in dealing with the upsurge of virus cases and deaths are developing and ongoing in many different contexts, as countries around the world are doing their best to build ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
doaj   +1 more source

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

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