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‘It's like these scientists own the rains’: indigenous knowledge, disaster warnings, and the politics of legitimacy in Malawi

Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This study examines the declining use of indigenous knowledge (IK) in early warning systems for climate‐related disasters in Malawi, drawing on qualitative data from four disaster‐prone districts and national‐level institutions. While IK is frequently referenced in policy discourse and programmatic frameworks, its practical integration into ...
Stern Mwakalimi Kita
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Megacostalism and the pandemic: Developing a megacostal theology of care beyond COVID-19

Verbum et Ecclesia
Megacostalism is a concept developed here to refer to the growing trend of mega Pentecostal churches in Africa. The mega Pentecostal churches are popular in the United States of America with leading pastors such as T.D. Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen,
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
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Testimonial for Christ? A Theology of Witness in the Face of Testimonial Studies

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 34-55, January 2026.
Abstract As a contemporary mode of discourse and basic concept of Christian existence, the concept of witnessing, at the interface of public theology and testimonial studies, is examined with regard to its epistemic dimension: What implications does witnessing as knowledge practice have for theology? To this end, the paper outlines the understanding of
Frederike van Oorschot
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Troubling the Waters: Black African Christian Presence and the Reshaping of Christianity in Canada

Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores the histories of Christians of African descent in Canada, challenging Eurocentric narratives that have rendered their religious contributions invisible. Using polycentric framework, it examines how historic Black Christian communities—from Black Loyalists and Refugees in Nova Scotia to congregations across Ontario and ...
James Kwateng‐Yeboah
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Bloody Howard! Gender, Leadership, and the Decline of the Liberal Party of Australia as the “Party for Women”

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 753-777, December 2025.
Women played a key role in the founding of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) in 1944 and in providing its branch structure. The newly established LPA also sought to encourage women to join the party and to seek political office. This led the LPA to achieve most of the “firsts” for women in Australian politics and, for much of the 20th century, the ...
Blair Williams
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Psalm 91 in early North American Pentecostal periodicals: A reception history from 1906 to 1939 [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
This reception history aims to locate Psalm 91 within the Pentecostal context and to discover the effects of the psalm on Pentecostal theology and practice.
Lee Roy Martin
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Trauma, sociogenesis, and the work of societal healing after conflict: “All Rwandans are wounded”

Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract This article explores recurring problems in post‐conflict studies of trauma through the lens of evolving discourses of psychic woundedness in post‐genocide Rwanda. Research suggests that global psychiatric discourses did not enter the Rwandan public sphere until after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, at which point local iterations of ...
Zoë Elizabeth Berman
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Book Review: In Jesus’ Name: Johannine Prayer in Ethical, Missional, and Eschatological Perspective

Conspectus, 2023
Robert P. Menzies
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Movimiento pentecostal en América Latina: Teorías sociológicas y debates teológicos

Revista Cultura & Religión, 2009
The idea of this work is to allow that the theology pentecostal expresses for yes same. In the center of attention they find five texts (Self, Sepúlveda, Petersen, Johns, Villafañe) modals to the theological - liberating receipt of the Theology of the ...
Michael Bergunder
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