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Buy the Future: Charismatic Pentecostalism and African Liberation in a Neoliberal World
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.
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“Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa
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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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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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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African American Pentecostalism and the Public Square, 2017
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
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Religious Transnationalism: The case of Zimbabwean Catholics in Britain [PDF]
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
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Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 759-762, September 2025.
Kimberly Akano
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NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics
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
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Black American and Nigerian Pentecostalism: A Black Religious Schizophrenia, 1910-2010
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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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
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