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Negotiating faith in exile: Learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda
Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 114-125, February 2025.Abstract Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. Partnerships are increasingly promoted through international declarations and bespoke toolkits. Such approaches are abstracted from the historical and contemporary contexts through which faith is negotiated, and through which faith actors ...
Elizabeth Storer
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The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 272-287, December 2024.Abstract This paper describes a safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusations that has been initiated by people of the Hewa‐speaking community located in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Belief in witchcraft and the killing of accused witches has a long cultural history among Hewa people, where it was formerly part of intergroup conflict and
Michael Main
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Diversity Dynamics: How Local Religious Groups Appear, Persist, or Disappear over Time
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 519-542, September 2024.Abstract Religious diversity is often described and measured statically. This article goes a step further by describing how congregational religious diversity changes over time, and by exposing the mechanisms underlying these changes. We combine data from two censuses (from 2008 and 2020) of congregations in Switzerland with a sample‐based national ...
Jeremy Senn +2 more
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The Faith Factor: A Study on the Responses of Neo-Pentecostal Churches During the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia [PDF]
, 2021 This research explores the impact of faith on health beliefs and responses within the context of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. It looks at the responses of neo-Pentecostals (NPs) to the Ebola outbreak and containment measures. In much of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), faith stakeholders are crucial for community acceptance of health information and ...
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Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract Employing the pentecostal paradox motif, this survey engages the literature on African Pentecostalism across a spectrum of disciplines in both humanities and social sciences. Utilising a thematic cluster as analytical approach, the study posits that African Pentecostalism represents a decolonial shift from an era of mere beliefs to the era of ...
Chammah J. Kaunda
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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 +2 more
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"...but the poor opted for the evangelicals!" - Evangelicals, poverty and prosperity
Acta Theologica, 2012 This article discusses developments in the historical discourse on evangelicalism, poverty and prosperity. Have the global evangelical celebrations of 2010 bridged the dichotomy between social responsibility (Ecumenicals) and the proclamation of ...
Gideon van der Watt
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Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 1001-1005, December 2025.
Uzair Farooq Mir
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The Distinction between Theology and Ethics: A Critical History
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 209-230, June 2024.ABSTRACT This article sketches an intellectual history of the distinction between Christian theology and Christian ethics. The twists and turns of that history have been obscured by a recent tendency to deny the distinction's usefulness, as part of a wider strategy for reasserting theology's relevance to modern social problems.
Sean Lau
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