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The Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 173-186, September 2026.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
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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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, 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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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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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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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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Religious Nationalisms in African Contexts
Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 286-292, June 2026.
Katharina Wilkens
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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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"...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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Redeeming the cursed blessing of church business in Zimbabwean neo-Pentecostalism
African Journal of Pentecostal StudiesBackground: 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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