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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]
ABSTRACT 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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The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is discussed here from disciplinal and decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored to show that Pentecostalism is part of ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Inter-Weaving of Local and Global Discourses: History of Early Pentecostals in Kerala
Even though the Pentecostal movement in Kerala, South India, is a unique expression of Global Christianity, it has not been given due recognition either in the history of Kerala Christianity or Global Pentecostalism.
Jose Abraham, George Oommen
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Pentecostalism is a Protestant movement that emerged in the early 20th century in the North-American context. It focuses on experiencing the “gifts of the Holy Spirit” (charisma) as a means of deeper individual sanctification, and as a "power" for ...
Fer, Yannick
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The phenomenon of human conscience
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Marius Nel
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Early Pentecostals came mostly from the ranks of the marginalised and disenfranchised, leading some researchers to describe the origin, attraction and expansion of Pentecostalism as some form of Social Deprivation theory.
Marius Nel
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Pentecostal ecumenical impulses: Past and present challenges
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
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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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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Church and war: A change in hermeneutical stance among Pentecostals
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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