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Pentecostalism and media in Africa: Theoretical explorations of power and agency of media platforms and their users

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This survey paper interrogates four theoretical frameworks often invoked to analyze intersections between media and religion: mediatization, mediation of meaning, mediation of the beyond, and religious social shaping of technology. The paper surveys several research works informed by the aforementioned theories that study Pentecostals ...
Murtala Ibrahim
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After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 383-395, December 2022., 2022
Abstract How do Pentecostal Christians seek repair and renewal in their lives, after their efforts to rupture with the past and become born again? In this article, I wish to consider the ways that a group of Nigerian Pentecostals who belong to a deliverance church re‐narrativise their lives by constructing and entering into new timelines of history ...
Naomi Richman
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Syncretism Narrative and the Use of Material Objects within Some Neo-Pentecostal Circles in Contemporary South Africa

open access: yesReligions, 2023
African Pentecostal Christianity presents interconnectedness with African cultures, spiritualities, and religiosity in many ways. Among many other practices that demonstrate this interconnectedness is the use of material objects common within some ...
Themba Shingange
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Neo-Pentecostalism and religious conservatism on Facebook: A digital ethnography in Peruvian Pro-Family and Pro-Life groups

open access: yesDesde el Sur, 2022
This article is situated in the galloping rise of a conservatism that seeks to mold society according to moral standards based on a rigid religiosity that advocates the defense of the «traditional family», the fight against homosexualization of children,
Eduardo Muro Ampuero
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The “Pinkster Kerk” as a Site of Indigenous Religious Expression within Black Pentecostal Theology

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 600-616, October 2022., 2022
Abstract Deploying a decolonial epistemological framework that brings critical race and identity theory into conversation with African and Black theologies, this article explores the phenomenon of Pinkster Kerk as a productive site for indigenous meaning‐making within studies on Black theology and African Pentecostalism.
Johnathan Jodamus
wiley   +1 more source

Between African and American Neo-Pentecostalism: An Examination of the Link, Influence, Merits and Demerits

open access: yesStudia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2021
This article is based on a research study that investigated the influence, merits and demerits of the link between African and American Neo-Pentecostalism.
Daniel O. Orogun, J. Pillay
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Struggling Along in Nigeria: Depression, Treatment, and Morality

open access: yesEthos, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 184-207, July 2022., 2022
Abstract In this article, we analyze the multiple ways of moral being with depression in urban Nigeria, including those of the ethnographer. This approach fits recent theorizing in moral anthropology and mental health that aims at uncovering how mental illness and ethical being come into being in between patients and meaningful others.
Merel Otto, Eva van Roekel
wiley   +1 more source

Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization from Samba to Carnaval Gospel

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 324-353, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing carnaval parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments.
Martijn Oosterbaan
wiley   +1 more source

Pentecostals and the marginalised: A historical survey of the early Pentecostal movement’s predilection for the marginalised

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
Early Pentecostals came mostly from the ranks of the marginalised and disenfranchised, leading some researchers to describe the origin, attraction and expansion of Pentecostalism as some form of Social Deprivation theory.
Marius Nel
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Pentecostal ecumenical impulses: Past and present challenges

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2018
Several leaders in the early Pentecostal movement interpreted the outpouring of the Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission and other places as a sign that the Spirit would now unite Christians across the borders of denominations in a new Pentecost that ...
Marius Nel
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