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The African background of Pentecostal theology: A critical perspective

In die Skriflig, 2019
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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The phenomenon of human conscience

In die Skriflig, 2019
No abstract available.
Marius Nel
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Church and war: A change in hermeneutical stance among Pentecostals

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
At its inception and for the first 40 years of its existence, Pentecostalism was a pacifist movement preaching non-violence and non-retaliation. At the end of the Second World War, the movement changed its stance, in many instances without officially ...
Marius Nel
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market?

Journal for the Study of Religion, 2021
With reference to two Pentecostal churches in the Kayamandi suburb of Stellenbosch, South Africa, we consider the ways in which capitalism and the Pentecostal spirit interrelate in a contemporary South Africa.
Thibaut Dubarry
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Pentecostal talk about God: Attempting to speak from experience

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
Pentecostals have their own ethos to bring to the theological table. Although they represent a diverse spectrum of beliefs, they share a basic preference for experience co-determining their theology, along with their interpretation of Scripture.
Marius Nel
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Pentecostals and the pulpit: A case study of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
In general, early Pentecostals did not use any pulpits in their halls in order to underline their emphasis that each believer is a prophet and priest equipped by the Holy Spirit with gifts for the edification of other members of the assembly.
Marius Nel
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The mind and the Devil: porosity and discernment in two Chinese charismatic‐style churches

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 26, Issue S1, Page 95-113, April 2020., 2020
Abstract This essay explores otherworldly encounters and notions of mind across two charismatic‐style churches in China. In Zhao Village Church in rural Henan province, Christian congregants more often approached the mind as porous to the Devil's corruption.
Emily Ng
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Pentecostal Forms across Religious Divides: Media, Publicity, and the Limits of an Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism

Religions, 2018
Scholars of Pentecostalism have usually studied people who embrace it, but rarely those who do not. I suggest that the study of global Pentecostalism should not limit itself to Pentecostal churches and movements and people who consider themselves ...
Marleen de Witte
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‘The Ngabwe Covenant’ and the Search for an African Theology of Eco-Pneumato-Relational Way of Being in Zambia

Religions, 2020
This study explores the ways in which the born-again traditional leaders in Zambia are redefining neo-Pentecostal interaction with nonhuman creation. It demonstrates their attempts to rapture new religious imaginations in interstitial spaces between neo ...
Chammah Judex Kaunda
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Church-Franchise: Missional Innovation for Church Planting and Leadership Mentorship in Neo-Pentecostal and Neo-Prophetic Churches in Africa

Religions, 2022
The great commission, as traditionally understood in Christendom, has been the core basis for church growth. Passion for the lost, evangelism outreach, conversions, and baptism followed by congregating, have culminated in church establishments ...
Peter White, Simbarashe Pondani
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