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The landscapes of lives I: An action landscape approach to practices and the interface of individual and society

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 149-165, June 2024.
Abstract Practices occupy the intersection of human behavior with its personal and societal dimensions, operating in social theory as bridges between high‐order cultural features and on‐the‐ground dynamics that reciprocally shape the conditions of everyday life and animate human experience. Yet precisely how this bridging occurs remains underspecified.
Carol M. Worthman, Constance A. Cummings, Daniel Lende   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prophecy, Pentecostals and South Africa’s socio-economic inequality

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: The article dissected white South African classical Pentecostals’ concept of prophecy in the context of widespread poverty and the resulting socio-economic inequality that characterises their society. As a rule, most white Pentecostals do not
Marius Nel
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Church and war: A change in hermeneutical stance among Pentecostals

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
At its inception and for the first 40 years of its existence, Pentecostalism was a pacifist movement preaching non-violence and non-retaliation. At the end of the Second World War, the movement changed its stance, in many instances without officially ...
Marius Nel
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A Future Agenda for Research on In‐Service Theological Training in Thailand and Beyond

International Review of Mission, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 92-114, May 2024.
Abstract Contextualization has featured prominently in missiological research for decades, often alongside concepts such as syncretism and hybridity. Being typically conceived as attempts to transpose and communicate the gospel in words and ways that make sense to people in their local cultural settings, contextualization has been theorized extensively
Ross Winchester, Kevin Hovey, Johannes M. Luetz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pentecostalism and Charismatic Movement in Russia in 1991–2020

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Pentecostalism is one of the world’s most numerous branches of Protestantism. It emerged in the United States in 1906 and began to spread to the USSR in the 1920s. Pentecostalism presupposes baptism of the Holy Spirit and miracles in the mundane.
Nikolai A. Miazin
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Religious Nationalisms in African Contexts

Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 286-292, June 2026.
Katharina Wilkens
wiley   +1 more source

Proselytizing is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a post‐fundamentalist church in Nashville

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 77-95, April 2024.
Abstract This essay proposes a moral epistemological explanation for many US evangelicals’ growing unease about proselytizing. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at a church in Nashville, Tennessee, it highlights how a particular kind of epistemological certainty became a driving value of evangelical biblicism when early nineteenth‐century evangelicals ...
Sam Victor
wiley   +1 more source

Play and Freedom: Patterns of Life in the Spirit

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 197-215, April 2024.
Abstract This article explores the pneumatological theme of the freedom of the Spirit from the perspective of experience. It deploys a recently developed methodology of attending to affective and experiential dynamics in pneumatology to identify two significant patterns or modalities of Christian life in the Spirit that are indexed to the Spirit's ...
Simeon Zahl
wiley   +1 more source

Called to the missional frontline in a turbulent world: The role of theological education

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: The Apostolic Faith Mission International (AFMI) conference had as its theme called to the missional frontline in a turbulent world, but the topic of theological education never made it to the main agenda. The article engages with theological
Daniel N. Andrew
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Reconciliation as mission: A classical Pentecostal reading of Isak Burger’s leadership in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: The Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of South Africa, although rooted in early classical Pentecostal revivalism, developed within a context marked by apartheid, segregation and theological polarisation.
Zephania Mundhluri
doaj   +1 more source