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Buy the Future: Charismatic Pentecostalism and African Liberation in a Neoliberal World

open access: yes, 2018
Concurring with the mounting pace of neoliberal reform, the rise of African charismatic Pentecostal churches since the 1980s points to the close link between political-economic shifts and religious renewal, and in particular between charismatic ...
de Witte, M.
core   +2 more sources

“Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa

open access: yesHistory 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
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

‘Minding the pentecostal paradox’: Currents and cross‐currents in pentecostal studies in Africa (PenteSA)

open access: yesReligion 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
wiley   +1 more source

African American Pentecostalism and the Public Square, 2017

open access: yes, 2023
In the United States, a commonly held assumption is that the Constitutional separation of church and state necessitates a separation also ofreligion and politics, justifies a secular state, and commends reason as the "neutral” language of the secular ...
Ware, Frederick
core  

Religious Transnationalism: The case of Zimbabwean Catholics in Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article examines the ways in which mainstream churches engender migrants' maintenance of transnational ties and improve their integration into British society. It uses the Zimbabwean Catholic congregation in Birmingham as a case study.
Pasura, Dominic
core   +1 more source

Disciplines and Disruptions

open access: yes
Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 759-762, September 2025.
Kimberly Akano
wiley   +1 more source

NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 365-385, May 2024.
Abstract This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo‐Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity—a transformation not only of inner, ‘private’ lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo‐Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water,
Gareth Millington   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Black American and Nigerian Pentecostalism: A Black Religious Schizophrenia, 1910-2010

open access: yes, 2014
The paper x-rayed the origins and growth of Pentecostalism in American and African milieu. It is a comparative study. Finding showed that in spite of African Pentecostals being African initiated churches, American  Pentecostalism has direct or indirect ...
Udezo, BOS, Nmah, PE
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Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, May 2024.
Abstract Drawing on fieldwork conducted at a South African University, this qualitative study examines the lived experiences of black foreign students studying and living in South Africa. The study sought to understand the role that Pentecostalism plays in mediating the everyday experiences of black foreign students within and beyond the university ...
Simbarashe Gukurume
wiley   +1 more source

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