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

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

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

Religions
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
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The Wind of Spirit Blows Where It Will: Catholic Performances of Faith in San Felipe, Cobán, Guatemala

Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 357-361, June 2026.
Virginia Garrard
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Religious Nationalisms in African Contexts

Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 286-292, June 2026.
Katharina Wilkens
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Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana

American 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
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Reconciliation in South Africa: Recent Contributions and the Part African Pentecostalism Can Play

Conspectus
The current socio-political approaches to reconciliation in South Africa are fragile which is evidenced by the high levels of poverty, corruption, and inequalities which cancel the strides taken in the right direction of democratizing and unifying the ...
Bambo Miti
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“Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa

History Compass, Volume 22, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract This article provides a short overview of ‘entanglement’ in recent histories of mission, examining what distinguishes it from earlier conceptualisations of cross‐cultural encounters. This article locates the emergence of the term in the social sciences and global histories of empire, and explores its current influence in studies of Christian ...
Kate Tilson
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‘Minding the pentecostal paradox’: Currents and cross‐currents in pentecostal studies in Africa (PenteSA)

Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract Employing the pentecostal paradox motif, this survey engages the literature on African Pentecostalism across a spectrum of disciplines in both humanities and social sciences. Utilising a thematic cluster as analytical approach, the study posits that African Pentecostalism represents a decolonial shift from an era of mere beliefs to the era of ...
Chammah J. Kaunda
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