Evidence on the Reasons and Factors Influencing Contraceptive Nonutilization Among Women of Childbearing Age in Suburban Setting in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Nurs Health SciABSTRACT Family planning and the use of modern contraceptives are pivotal in promoting women's health, enhancing gender equality, and supporting socioeconomic development. However, in many regions, including sub‐Saharan Africa, a substantial gap remains in the utilization of modern contraceptives.
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Exploration of Nakivale Refugees' and Stakeholders' Perceptions and Priorities of Male Engagement in Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, and Family Planning: A Qualitative Study. [PDF]
J PregnancyBackground African refugee communities in Uganda encounter significant barriers to maternal health services, particularly regarding men’s involvement in maternal health. This study explored the perspectives of African refugees and stakeholders on men’s engagement in couple’s maternal health decisions, utilizing an interdependence‐based theoretical ...
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market?
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2021 With reference to two Pentecostal churches in the Kayamandi suburb of Stellenbosch, South Africa, we consider the ways in which capitalism and the Pentecostal spirit interrelate in a contemporary South Africa.
Thibaut Dubarry
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Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2004 At the start of the 20th century, as denominational resources were accumulated, Pentecostals provided basic bible training for their ministers and missionaries. The narrative shows how simple training schemes blossomed in some cultures into universities and colleges and, in others, into accredited institutions attached to secular bodies or, in the ...
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Pentecostal ecumenical impulses: Past and present challenges
In die Skriflig, 2018 Several leaders in the early Pentecostal movement interpreted the outpouring of the Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission and other places as a sign that the Spirit would now unite Christians across the borders of denominations in a new Pentecost that ...
Marius Nel
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The African background of Pentecostal theology: A critical perspective
In die Skriflig, 2019 African Traditional Religion (ATR) represents a primal worldview that encapsulates a certain culturally-innate sense of the world of transcendence and involves belief in a sacramental ‘enchanted’ universe in which the physical is indicative of spiritual ...
Marius Nel
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Church and war: A change in hermeneutical stance among Pentecostals
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017 At its inception and for the first 40 years of its existence, Pentecostalism was a pacifist movement preaching non-violence and non-retaliation. At the end of the Second World War, the movement changed its stance, in many instances without officially ...
Marius Nel
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Pentecostal talk about God: Attempting to speak from experience
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 Pentecostals have their own ethos to bring to the theological table. Although they represent a diverse spectrum of beliefs, they share a basic preference for experience co-determining their theology, along with their interpretation of Scripture.
Marius Nel
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Pentecostals and the pulpit: A case study of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 In general, early Pentecostals did not use any pulpits in their halls in order to underline their emphasis that each believer is a prophet and priest equipped by the Holy Spirit with gifts for the edification of other members of the assembly.
Marius Nel
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The shifting landscape of African-Pentecostalism in Kenya
Theologia Viatorum, 2022 I define African Pentecostalism as the Pentecostal thread that embraces some elements of African culture, without necessarily admitting it. It embraces some elements of the African heritage consciously or unconsciously.
Julius M. Gathogo
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