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Pentecostalism and migration: A contextual study of the migrant Ghanaian Classical Pentecostal churches in South Africa

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
Pentecostal phenomenon from history has always moved with migration. Reading Acts 1:8, Jesus linked the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the migration of his disciples and the gospel from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth ...
Peter White
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Juan Sepulveda and the Understanding of the Syncretic Characteristics of Latin American Pentecostalism: The Case of Classical Pentecostalism in Guatemala

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article presents the case of Guatemalan Pentecostalism as a highly relevant expression of Latin American Pentecostalism that helps to clarify the debate about the syncretic nature of Pentecostalism.
Klaas Bom, Jonán Monroy-Soto
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Missionizing Church Governance: Transfiguring Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Pentecostalism has experienced massive growth and evolution, both within Africa and beyond, as is evident through the emergence of dynamic neo-Pentecostal movements, including independent, prophetic, and charismatic churches.
Kimion Tagwirei
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New paradigms of pneumatological ecclesiology brought about by new prophetic churches within South African Pentecostalism

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2020
Pneumatological ecclesiology has caught the interest of many Pentecostal theologians, especially in the three main sub-traditions of Pentecostalism, that is, classical Pentecostalism (later CP), Pentecostal African Independent Churches (later PAIC) and ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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A Theological Evaluation of Pentecostalism and its Relevance for the Contemporary Church [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2023
The wave of spiritual dimensions in the Christian faith cannot be over-emphasised due to personal encounters with the Divine God and subject to people's understanding and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.
Elisha Oyedele Olabamiji
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The Influence and the legacy of the Latter Rain Movement on the Neo-Charismatic Movement [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2022
The focus of this paper is to point out some doctrines of Branham , the morning star of the Latter Rain Movement that left some impact on the current Neo-Charismatic Movement.
Dr Kelebogile Thomas Resane
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Peculiarities in the Pentecostal tradition: Disciplinal and decolonial perspectives in a South African context

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2022
The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is discussed here from disciplinal and decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored to show that Pentecostalism is part of ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market?

open access: yesJournal for the Study of Religion, 2021
With reference to two Pentecostal churches in the Kayamandi suburb of Stellenbosch, South Africa, we consider the ways in which capitalism and the Pentecostal spirit interrelate in a contemporary South Africa.
Thibaut Dubarry
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Transition from the Opium of Religion to Religion as Opioids: Abuse of Religious Teachings in the New Prophetic Churches in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for the Study of Religion, 2023
The New Prophetic Churches is a religion in the mix, demonstrated by their points of contact with classical Pentecostalism, the prosperity gospel, African independent churches, and African traditional religion.
Mookgo S. Kgatle, Jonas S. Thinane
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Serving the needy from the greedy: Reviewing Diakonia in African neo-Pentecostalism

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2023
When the economy turned downwards across most African nations over the past two decades hitherto today, multifarious neo-Pentecostal churches correspondingly multiplied in and beyond the Global South.
Kimion Tagwirei
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