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Religion as Play: Pentecostalism as a Theological Type

Religions, 2018
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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Syncretism Narrative and the Use of Material Objects within Some Neo-Pentecostal Circles in Contemporary South Africa

Religions, 2023
African Pentecostal Christianity presents interconnectedness with African cultures, spiritualities, and religiosity in many ways. Among many other practices that demonstrate this interconnectedness is the use of material objects common within some ...
Themba Shingange
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Ndadhinhiwa (I am fed up): A Missiological Framing of the Gendered Notions of African Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2021
Pentecostalism remains one of the fastest growing forms of Christianity on the African continent. Early scholarship on African Pentecostalism had shown it to be gender inclusive.
Manyonganise, Molly
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New paradigms of pneumatological ecclesiology brought about by new prophetic churches within South African Pentecostalism

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
Pneumatological ecclesiology has caught the interest of many Pentecostal theologians, especially in the three main sub-traditions of Pentecostalism, that is, classical Pentecostalism (later CP), Pentecostal African Independent Churches (later PAIC) and ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Spiritual Christians in Republican China: Reconceptualization beyond Pentecostalism and Indigenization

Religions, 2023
Pentecostalism contributes significantly to Christian revivals as well as to the rise of indigenous churches in the non-Western world. This is due to its proximity to local religious traditions, such as the practices of dream interpretation, healing, and
Yi Liu, Meng Liu
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‘Warfare’ Pentecostalism, Poverty and Welfare Provisioning in Southwestern Nigeria

International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 2019
Warfare Pentecostalism entails a brand of the Pentecostal movement, which views the world in terms of evil machinations of enemies whom every individual must battle spiritually.
Olufikayo Kunle Oyelade, Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale   +1 more
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A South African view of Pentecostalism as another response to modernism

In die Skriflig, 2020
A popular way used by most sociologists, anthropologists and theologians to define the Pentecostal movement, its origins and growth is by way of the Deprivation Theory, implying that Pentecostalism can be explained in terms of its origins among the poor,
Marius Nel
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Social entrepreneurship in the selected neo-Pentecostal churches: A holistic salvation

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023
Pentecostalism is a Christian tradition known for personal salvation, baptism in the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, divine healing and personal encounter with God through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Mookgo S. Kgatle, Semape J. Manyaka-Boshielo   +1 more
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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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