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Prosthetic species: Security dogs and the more‐than‐human sensing of urban danger

City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 35-45, April 2024.
Abstract Focusing on human–dog relations, this article develops a more‐than‐human approach to the sensing of urban insecurity. Extending work on the embodied, sensory dimension of fear and other security affects, it centers the role of non‐human, canine bodies in processes of risk assessment.
Rivke Jaffe
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Spirit and economy: Pentecostalism and the afterlives of Max Weber

, 2012
Includes abstract.Scroll down to electronic link to access the thesis.This thesis investigates the historical intersections between Pentecostalism and Weberian sociology, beginning with the simultaneous publication of Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the
Nogueira-Godsey, Trad
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In Search of Life‐Wisdom: Ubuntu, EnvironmEntity and Technology

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 175-189, March 2024.
Abstract This article contends that technology has evolved into a fundamental theo‐philosophical category. Acknowledging the intricacy of technology, it advocates for an exploration of indigenous philosophies to cultivate 'response‐ability' wisdom. The concept of environmEntity is introduced as an alternative to the traditional understanding of the ...
Chammah J. Kaunda
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Encountering African pentecostalism : methodologies and evolving tendencies

African Pentecostal Christianity is one of the fastest-growing movements among other Christian traditions in the world. This makes African Pentecostal Christianity a major contributor to the growth of global Pentecostalism and world Christianity. However,
Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon
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Many Tongues, Many Economic Practices: Socio-Economic Opportunities and Challenges for African Pentecostal Christianity

Religions
This article focuses on Pentecostalism and its real and possible contributions to socio-economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. First, we provide an overall historical and theological introduction to Pentecostalism in sub-Saharan Africa, especially ...
Amos Yong, Johannes Knoetze
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Healing in African Pentecostalism: the “Victorious Living” of David Oyedepo

, 2011
Focusing on Living Faith Church Worldwide, or Winners’ Chapel, founded by David Oyedopo in Lagos, Nigeria, with 400 branches in thirty-eight African countries, this chapter argues that the defining characteristic of African pentecostalism, influenced by ...
Gifford, Paul
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Reclaiming the essence of Pentecostalism for revitalising faith formation in South African churches

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: Pentecostalism has significantly shaped the landscape of Christianity in South Africa. However, concerns have been raised that certain independent Pentecostal churches have strayed from the movement’s original theological and missionary ...
Ronele M. Prince, Johannes J. Knoetze
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Entrepreneurship: an African Caribbean perspective [PDF]

, 2011
This study set out to take a definitive look at African Caribbean entrepreneurship by delineating the broad spectrum of historical and contemporary theories of ethnic entrepreneurship.
Roberts, Gregory John
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African scholarship on African Pentecostalism in diasporic contexts: an overview

The chapter is a review of the writings of African scholars on Pentecostalism in the diaspora. It locates them within the larger context of academic interest in African Christianity in Europe.
Chitando, Ezra, Sande, Nomatter
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Decolonising Western missionaries’ mission theology and practice in Ghanaian church history: A Pentecostal approach

In die Skriflig, 2017
The term missional is meant to refer fundamentally to the missio Dei, just as the term missionary does. Missiology is the systematic study of all aspects of mission.
Peter White
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