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The “Pinkster Kerk” as a Site of Indigenous Religious Expression within Black Pentecostal Theology
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
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Serving the needy from the greedy: Reviewing Diakonia in African neo-Pentecostalism
When the economy turned downwards across most African nations over the past two decades hitherto today, multifarious neo-Pentecostal churches correspondingly multiplied in and beyond the Global South.
Kimion Tagwirei
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Struggling Along in Nigeria: Depression, Treatment, and Morality
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
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Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization from Samba to Carnaval Gospel
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
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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
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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The African background of Pentecostal theology: A critical perspective
African Traditional Religion (ATR) represents a primal worldview that encapsulates a certain culturally-innate sense of the world of transcendence and involves belief in a sacramental ‘enchanted’ universe in which the physical is indicative of spiritual ...
Marius Nel
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Achieving Gender Balance Education through the Lens of Neo-Pentecostalism [PDF]
In order to be formidable and great in any given civilization, gender equality is a necessary condition. The fundamental formula for a functioning society calls for partnership and a fair division of labour between the sexes.
Elizabeth Akpanke Odey, Eme Stella Osim
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Neo-Kantianism and Cultural Sciences
This volume aims to investigate, from both a historiographical and theoretical point of view, the peculiar relationship that was established between the various neo-Kantian schools of thought and other disciplines which in the late 19th and early 20th ...
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The phenomenon of human conscience
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Marius Nel
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