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This article presents the case of Guatemalan Pentecostalism as a highly relevant expression of Latin American Pentecostalism that helps to clarify the debate about the syncretic nature of Pentecostalism.
Klaas Bom, Jonán Monroy-Soto
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Religion as Play: Pentecostalism as a Theological Type
This article suggests that Pentecostalism constitutes a genuine type of religion we can label as play. In order to identify the particular elements of this type, the article makes use of Erving Goffman’s frame analysis to organize Pentecostal theological
Wolfgang Vondey
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‘Progressive’ Pentecostalism in Ghana: Development, Morality, and National Interest
The societal impact of ‘progressive’ Pentecostalism—that is, how is it ‘progressive’, and what are its effects?—is a significant concern in Ghana, not least because the faith’s demographic significance makes its nature and characteristics a prominent ...
Jeffrey Haynes
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This chapter elucidates the epistemological assumptions tacit in the uniqueness of Pentecostal and charismatic experience. It argues that Pentecostal spirituality functions as a limit case for most paradigms in epistemology, requiring a revised account of ‘understanding’ that recognizes the unique and irreducible mode of ‘narrative knowledge’.
Andrew Johnson
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Charismata and compassion : Dhinakaran, Charismatic healing and Pastoral Pentecostalism in South India : a practical theological assessment [PDF]
This dissertation is a theological assessment of the Jesus Calls divine healing movement as it developed in South India. It analyses the thought of the founder D. G. S.
Gnanakan, Christopher Guru
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A Theological Evaluation of Pentecostalism and its Relevance for the Contemporary Church [PDF]
The wave of spiritual dimensions in the Christian faith cannot be over-emphasised due to personal encounters with the Divine God and subject to people's understanding and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.
Elisha Oyedele Olabamiji
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An Indigenous Force of Pentecostalism in Africa: Indigenous Knowledge System Approach to Decolonization [PDF]
Pentecostalism in Africa has many expressions, types, and shadows contributing to the challenge of categorisations in the movement. There are some forms of Pentecostalism in Africa that resemble the American context in terms of theology and practice ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Charismatic experiences in the Congo Evangelistic Mission Churches: A review of some practices
Deliverance and divine healing, as well as the crucial historical aspect of the mission’s early proselytising and development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), constitute the major characteristics of Pentecostalism. As they form a historical
Mayuka G. Bondo, Marius Nel
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Who’s Your Daddy? In Search of the “Father” of Pentecostalism [PDF]
The concept of assigning a person the title of father of an ideology or view has its roots in ancient Greek and Roman society where some of the earliest of such references occur.
Eben de Jager
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Despite the attested relationship between Zionism and Pentecostalism, the similarities between the pre-1970s black Pentecostalism in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of South Africa and Zionism are only now getting exposed.
Mofokeng, Thabang Richard
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