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Seeing and hearing Hagar: An affective reading of Genesis 16
In die SkrifligIn the past, Hagar’s significance in the Abrahamic narratives has been overlooked by biblical scholarship. Although recent studies have aimed to rescue and redeem Hagar from patriarchal interpretations, insufficient attention has been given to the ...
A. Rebecca Basdeo Hill, Lee R. Martin
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Will God Make Me Rich? An Investigation into the Relationship between Membership in Charismatic Churches, Wealth, and Women’s Empowerment in Ghana [PDF]
, 2018 In recent decades, there has been an explosion in the growth of Pentecostal churches in Ghana, many of which preach that belief in God will translate into material wealth for both men and women.
Gundersen, Sara
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
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I believe in the Holy Spirit: Power and technology at crossroads
African Journal of Pentecostal StudiesBackground: This year, 2025, Christians from all persuasions (Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant) commemorate 1700 years of Nicene Creed, referred to as Creed henceforth.
Kelebogile T. Resane
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Aspects of Radical Gay Liberation Theory in West Germany's Tuntenstreit, 1973–1975
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines in depth the theoretical positions of the Tuntenstreit – a major theoretical dispute within the radical West German gay liberation movement in the 1970s. By working through archival material as well as the dispute's fundamental texts, it renders visible its often‐neglected underlying theoretical motifs and, consequently ...
Hauke Branding
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"We're Movin' On Up!": Afro-Pentecostal schools as mechanisms for African American social mobility [PDF]
, 2010 Anjuet Tucker comes to the Howard Thurman Center to discuss afro-pentecostal schools.African American Studies ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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Ecumenical perspectives on pentecostal pneumatology [PDF]
, 2015 This contribution responds to the unbearable but undeniable tension between the ecumenical movement and the Pentecostal movement by exploring the doctrinal differences in this regard. More specifically, the aim is to understand the challenges posed to
Conradie, Ernst
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
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In die Skriflig, 2019 In mainline churches, the ministry of prophecy or the prophetic ministry involves the proclamation of the gospel. This, in turn, is related to the every-believer ministry.
Hulisani Ramantswana
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Men in the Remaking: Conversion Narratives and Born-Again Masculinity in Zambia [PDF]
, 2012 The born-again discourse is a central characteristic of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa. In the study of African Christianities, this discourse and the way it (re)shapes people’s moral, religious, and social identities has received much attention ...
Adriaan S. Van Klinken +45 more
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