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Charting African Prosperity Gospel economies

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
This article maps the vital debate on Prosperity Gospel in Africa and its relevance for socioeconomic change. Prosperity Gospel centres mainly on speech acts surrounding faith, wealth and victory, combined with ritual enactments around secondary ...
Andreas Heuser
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Revisiting the Healing Narrative of the Gospel in the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]

Theol Today, 2022
Wijaya Y.
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African Witchcraft and Pentecostalism

European Journal of Theology and Philosophy
This paper focuses upon African witchcraft and the impact of Christianity on this. After discussing the notion of mystical mentality, it examines the role of Pentecostalism with its emphasis on evil spirits and deliverance on the perpetuation of witchcraft convictions in Africa using Ghana as an illustrative example.
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Immigrant pentecostalism in the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis: reactions and responses from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Berlin. [PDF]

Z Relig Ges Polit, 2022
van der Hoek S.
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Maxwell, David. Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga

African Christian Theology
A Book Note short review of Religious Entanglements:  Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga, by David Maxwell, Africa and the Diaspora:  History, Politics, Culture (Madison, Wisconsin, USA:
Leita NGOY
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The Pentecostal prosperity gospel in Nigeria: paradoxes of corruption and inequality. [PDF]

J Mod Afr Stud, 2021
Smith DJ.
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Power-Purity Pneumatology for African Pentecostalism

African Theological Journal for Church and Society
Africa once again occupies a strategic place in the history of Christianity as one of its chief centres when the religion is somewhat receding in the West.
Abel A. Alamu
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Africa Pentecostalized? Understanding the African appropriation of Pentecostalism in light of African perspectives

, 2013
I want to prepare an understanding of why Pentecostalism seems to be so attractive in Africa. I will outline Ogbu Kalu's understanding of a resonance between African traditional culture and Pentecostalism, and then add perspectives from other African scholars.
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Pentecostal theology regarding disability in African neo-Pentecostalism

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi
The Pentecostal approach to disability is currently informed by the imposed healing, deliverance, and performance of other miracles, particularly among neo-Pentecostals in Africa. This is also informed by the neo-Pentecostal pastor’s radical approach to the aspect of healing in Pentecostal theology.
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Inferring Cultural Landscapes with the Inverse Ising Model. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2023
Poulsen VM, DeDeo S.
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