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NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 365-385, May 2024.
Abstract This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo‐Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity—a transformation not only of inner, ‘private’ lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo‐Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water,
Gareth Millington, David Garbin, Simon Coleman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The fivefold ministry in African neo-Pentecostalism: Constructing a Pentecostal theology of edification

In die Skriflig
The fivefold ministry is the belief in the functioning of the five offices in ecclesial leadership such as apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists. Contrary to the practice in mainline Christianity and classical Pentecostalism, African neo-
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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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

Sacred corruption in sacred places: the case of some selected Neo Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria

Arts & Humanities Open Access Journal, 2020
It is no longer news that corruption is a persistent phenomenon in Nigeria; in which there is official misuse of funds and resources. If dishonesty or fraudulent practices are found in the mist of those in political power and among public servants, should such then be found in a place where the agitation day and night is on “holiness unto the Lord ...
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Intersectional hermeneutics in Zimbabwe’s Anglican Church, Diocese of Harare (2008–2025)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The Anglican Diocese of Harare (CPCA) church’s hermeneutical lenses intersected economic, political and social distress from 2000, with the emergence of Pentecostal denominations and/or ministries birthing new hermeneutics and phenomenon.
Dzikamai Mundenda
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Ahead by a Century

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 705-718, July 2024.
John Perry, D.T. Everhart
wiley   +1 more source

Redeeming the cursed blessing of church business in Zimbabwean neo-Pentecostalism

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: Since time immemorial, several churches in Zimbabwe have invested in education, health, agriculture and other businesses to advance integral mission and to generate profit for inclusive economic sustainability. Later, native neo-Pentecostals emerged with the gospel of prosperity, and some of them ended up commercialising and commodifying ...
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Pentecostal spirituality in the context of faith and hope gospel (prosperity preaching): African Pentecostal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Dialog, 2022
White P.
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Immigrant pentecostalism in the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis: reactions and responses from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Berlin. [PDF]

Z Relig Ges Polit, 2022
van der Hoek S.
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We are more than conquerors: socioeconomic dynamics in the neo-pentecostal churches

Revista Videre, 2020
The growth of neopentecostal churches not only due to an intense media machine but because of the socio-economic relations that occur within the communities that bring effect to what the faithful want to hear. Looking for years these dynamics through an observant participation combined with an  book analysis this article intends to show how the ...
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