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Leadership in the Mold of Jesus: Growing the Church and Saving the Nation in Neo‐Pentecostal Guatemala City

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2019
ResumenBasado en observaciones etnográficas en una de las principales megaiglesias de Guatemala, este artículo describe el impacto cultural que el concepto cristiano de “liderazgo” ejerce sobre las actitudes que los creyentes neopentecostales desarrollan hacia la sociedad como miembros de sus comunidades religiosas.
Reu, Tobias, Tobias Reu
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Contemporary Pentecostal churches practice prophecy primarily as inspirational preaching and teaching rather than predictive divination

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: Neo-Pentecostal interpretations of prophecy often emphasise prediction, overlooking its pastoral and political functions. In global Pentecostal networks, prophecy surpasses simple divination, impacting spiritual growth, communal improvement ...
Ndidzulafhi Mudau, Rendani Tshifhumulo
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Retraction notice to: ‘The unusual practices within some Neo-Pentecostal churches in South Africa: Reflections and recommendations’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 73(3), a4656

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
Reason: The article, Kgatle, M.S., 2017, ‘The unusual practices within some Neo-Pentecostal churches in South Africa: Reflections and recommendations’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 73(3), a4656.
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Unsafe spaces? An ecclesiological evaluation and response to recent controversial practices in some South African neo-Pentecostal churches

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
From a communal perspective of the church, this article analyses critically the controversial practices reported in some South African neo-Pentecostal (SANP) churches, such as feeding congregants with grass.
Collium Banda
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Modelling the Jewish Tzedakah Concept for Poverty Alleviation and Socio-economic Development in Africa: A Neo-Pentecostal Perspective [PDF]

, 2022
As the Jewish highest level of charity, Tzedakah remains a socio-economic system reputed for development in history. In African Christianity, charity is mostly practised at lower levels.
Orogun, Daniel
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Shame as an Ethical Category for an Integrative Diaconia in Brazil

Religions, 2023
The growing political influence of evangélico Christians in traditionally Catholic Brazil has caught the attention of social and political scientists as well as theologians.
Rudolf von Sinner
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Ghana’s Neo-Prophetic Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity: Future Prospects [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2019
Pentecostalism has received lots of scholarship. Yet, there is scanty scholarship on Neo-Prophetic Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity irrespective of its steadily growth and development in the religious field of Ghana.
George Anderson Jnr.
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From small country churches to explosion into megachurches: A modern Pentecostal cultural fit for the Assemblies of God in South Africa

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
This article examines the evolutionary journey of Assemblies of God in South Africa from small country churches into explosion of megachurches. This Pentecostal denomination is categorised as a classical Pentecostal church that evolved as a missionary ...
Kelebogile T. Resane
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Unbreakable bonds? The challenge of the motif of adoption to the African neo-Pentecostal belief in generational curses

In die Skriflig, 2020
The article uses the motif of salvation as adoption as God’s children to critique the African neo-Pentecostal (ANP) belief that generational curses remain on Christians after conversion.
Collium Banda
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Always connected : WhatsApp use in two middle-class pentecostal churches in India

, 2022
This article explores the activity in the WhatsApp-groups of two Indian Pentecostal churches using Christine Hine’s E3-model. It shows how the activities in the groups, in various ways, are embedded, embodied, and everyday. A central finding is that what
Kuhlin, Julia
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