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‘Minding the pentecostal paradox’: Currents and cross‐currents in pentecostal studies in Africa (PenteSA)

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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Pastoral Care as Volunteerism from the Perspective of neo-Pentecostalism in Bushbuckridge, South Africa

Social Science and Humanities Journal
This article presents findings from the study of pastoral care as volunteerism from the perspective of Neo-Pentecostalism. The purpose of the study was to understand the volunteering models used by this Christian tradition based on the study conducted in
V. Nkuna
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Deinstitutionalization of beliefs and Corporate Social Responsibility: Between neo-Pentecostalism and spirituality

Religiones y religiosidades en América Latina, 2020
This paper aims to explore the impact of recent transformations in the socio-religious field, in the economic and political spheres – more specifically, those derived from the processes of religious deinstitutionalization.
Luis Donatello, V. Galán, Julia Evangelina Velisone   +2 more
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The landscapes of lives I: An action landscape approach to practices and the interface of individual and society

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 149-165, June 2024.
Abstract Practices occupy the intersection of human behavior with its personal and societal dimensions, operating in social theory as bridges between high‐order cultural features and on‐the‐ground dynamics that reciprocally shape the conditions of everyday life and animate human experience. Yet precisely how this bridging occurs remains underspecified.
Carol M. Worthman, Constance A. Cummings, Daniel Lende   +2 more
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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
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Neo-Pentecostal political activism vis-a-vis good governance in Nigeria: A theological analysis

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023
This article presented the Nigerian neo-Pentecostal political activism (NNPA) in the last two decades and its impact on good governance. A brief historical analysis shows that pulpit political activism (PPA) may have catalysed some civil actions by civil
Daniel O. Orogun, Jerry G. Pillay
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'Prosperity a part of the atonement': An interpretation of 2 Corinthians 8:9

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
This article investigates the claim made by some Pentecostal preachers that prosperity is part of the atonement. The biblical basis that such preachers present for their claims is a specific understanding of 2 Corinthians 8:9.
Abiola Mbamalu
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Ghana’s Neo-Prophetic Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity: Future Prospects [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2019
Pentecostalism has received lots of scholarship. Yet, there is scanty scholarship on Neo-Prophetic Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity irrespective of its steadily growth and development in the religious field of Ghana.
George Anderson Jnr.
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Poverty, corruption, and religious opportunism in Africa: A Neo-Pentecostal perspective

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
In an ideal context, religious tenets are perceived as antithetical to corruption on all fronts. Sadly, Africa takes a frontline in religious activities, yet is bedevilled by corruption aided poverty.
Daniel Orogun, Jerry Pillay
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Neopentecostais E O Poder Punitivo: A Religião Como Palanque Político

Prim@ Facie, 2020
The present work presents a fragment of a larger research, about the Brazilian legislative reforms after the 2000s, whose specific focus at this moment is the demonstration of the transformation of religious discourse into a political platform,
Jackson da Silva Leal, Alex da Rosa
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