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Implications of Acts 1:8 for Ghanaian Neo-Pentecostal Missiology
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2021 The book of Acts is often referred to by many scholars and preachers when discussing Christian missions with emphasis on Acts 1:8 as the centrality of the book. Unfortunately, very little exegetical study is done on the text by scholars in relation to missions.
Paul Diboro, Boniface Blewusi
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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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A historical survey of the African Neo-Pentecostals’ response to digital transformation
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2023 The ongoing digital transformation (DT) in our world has not only brought change to secular systems but also to how things are done in the mission and ministry of the Christian faith. Although before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, some churches were interacting with DT, the post COVID-19 experience has shown that many more Christian ...
Daniel O. Orogun, Jerry Pillay
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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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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 +2 more
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NEO‐PENTECOSTAL URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA: Ontology, Politics, Poetics
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 365-385, May 2024.Abstract This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo‐Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity—a transformation not only of inner, ‘private’ lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo‐Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water,
Gareth Millington +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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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 +2 more
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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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Exorcising the Mandala: Kālacakra and the Neo-Pentecostal Response
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2012 article published in Journal of Global Buddhism; Vol 13 (2012)
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