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Divine gender as a challenge to classical Pentecostals

Verbum et Ecclesia
This article examines the traditional exclusive use of male language to describe God in classical Pentecostalism. This practice reinforces patriarchal structures and power dynamics, hinders women’s full participation in the church and limits believers ...
Marius Nel
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Consultations in New Prophetic Churches and African Traditional Religions: A Case Study of Divine Healing in Assessing Syncretistic Practices in the South African Context

Religions, 2023
New prophetic churches have a different approach to classical Pentecostalism when it comes to the practice of divine healing. Unlike classical Pentecostalism, new prophetic churches embrace the practice of consulting prophets in divine healing in the ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Realms unseen

American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 582-594, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Since 2006, albinism has emerged as both a subject and an object of contestation in Tanzania and beyond. An abiding global narrative purports that, as a recessively inherited condition, albinism is fetishized by Africans who falsely attribute otherworldly potentials to albino body parts and commodify them in a grisly market run by “traditional”
Jane L. Saffitz
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The spaces of religion: a view from South Asia★

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 553-572, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Anthropologists have spilt much ink deconstructing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment. Religion, possibly the most misleading such concept, has proved highly resistant to the acid of cross‐cultural comparison. Debates about the nature of religion go back to sociocultural anthropology's beginnings as a discipline and beyond.
David N. Gellner
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Clawing Through Bits of Glass and Bricks: James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr on the Birmingham Church Bombing

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 474-495, September 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the unpublished dialogue between James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr where they discussed the role of the Christian church in the wake of six child murders in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. On that catastrophic day—one that is impossible to forget—the Ku Klux Klan bombed The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, and
Jamall A. Calloway
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Pentecostal mission spirituality: a study of the classical Pentecostal Churches in Ghana [PDF]

Missionalia, 2017
Mission is not just about proclaiming the gospel - it encompasses spiritual preparation of those involved in both mission activity and in converted souls. This approach is what is termed as mission spirituality in this article. Mission spirituality is the means by which churches and individual believers participate in the mission of God, through the ...
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Comrades and spies

American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 419-430, August 2023., 2023
Abstract When Czechs consider their involvement in the global colonial system, they usually imagine themselves as the victims of Soviet imperial power. This is the case among those Czech anthropologists whose research under state socialism was tightly circumscribed.
Ema Hrešanová
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The Creed of Nicaea

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 215-234, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This article gives an account of the discussions about the creed that took place at the Council of Nicaea in 325. It considers major problems regarding its origin and history and outlines the circumstances of its composition, its peculiar structure, and its purpose on the basis of the latest research. Finally, it discusses the legacy of Nicaea
Wolfram Kinzig
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What is the Place for Megachurches? A Comparison of 22 American Cities Based on the Causes of Effects Approach1

Sociological Forum, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 169-191, March 2023., 2023
The success of megachurches in America is often traced back to their strategic ability of mobilizing new members in a competitive, religious marketplace. This paper shifts the attention to the push factors of megachurch success. It develops a causes of effects approach, in which local place‐based conditions in 22 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs ...
Insa Pruisken
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Intellectual Authority and Its Changing Infrastructures in Australian and United States Christianity, 1960s–2010s

, 2023
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 511-515, December 2023.
Christopher Mayes, Michael Thompson, Joanna Cruickshank   +2 more
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