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Diversity Dynamics: How Local Religious Groups Appear, Persist, or Disappear over Time

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 519-542, September 2024.
Abstract Religious diversity is often described and measured statically. This article goes a step further by describing how congregational religious diversity changes over time, and by exposing the mechanisms underlying these changes. We combine data from two censuses (from 2008 and 2020) of congregations in Switzerland with a sample‐based national ...
Jeremy Senn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deus e o diabo: parceiros na linguagem (neo)pentecostal? | God and Devil: Are they partners in the (Neo)Pentecostal Language?

open access: yesReflexão, 2019
Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar uma abordagem acerca da Linguagem Religiosa Pentecostal, sob o olhar do cientista da Religião, bem como analisar os gestos, narrativas e maneiras como algumas dessas linguagens perpassam as comunidades religiosas e atingem a sociedade de maneira geral.
openaire   +3 more sources

The Pragmatics of Religious Preaching in Islam and Christianity: Its Social, Normative, and Ritual Aspects

open access: yes
Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 1001-1005, December 2025.
Uzair Farooq Mir
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesReligion 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
wiley   +1 more source

Spirit and economy: Pentecostalism and the afterlives of Max Weber

open access: yes, 2012
Includes abstract.Scroll down to electronic link to access the thesis.This thesis investigates the historical intersections between Pentecostalism and Weberian sociology, beginning with the simultaneous publication of Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the
Nogueira-Godsey, Trad
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A Gang of Pentecostals

open access: yes, 2017
Inside Rio’s gang-controlled prisons and jails, incarcerated Pentecostals form inmate-led prison churches. These inmates claim part of the jail as their own and operate collectively as a cohesive group with a shared religious identity. In many ways these
Andrew Johnson
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Prosperity theology versus theology of sharing approach

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Theologians are split into two groups: those who embrace prosperity theology and those who oppose it; both sides on scriptural grounds. Those criticising it embrace cessationism in its diversity, while its supporters are mainly found among Pentecostals ...
Daniel S. Lephoko
doaj   +1 more source

Hieroglyphic Luwian Sources and Neo-Assyrian History

open access: yes, 2019
The contribution addresses Hieroglyphic Luwian sources and Neo-Assyrian ...
Annick Payne
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