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Zionist ‘syncretism’ in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa before the 1970s A comparative analysis

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2021
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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Peculiarities in the Pentecostal tradition: Disciplinal and decolonial perspectives in a South African context

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
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

Religions, 2023
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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The phenomenon of human conscience

In die Skriflig, 2019
No abstract available.
Marius Nel
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Pentecostals and the marginalised: A historical survey of the early Pentecostal movement’s predilection for the marginalised

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
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

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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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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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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A Universalização Pentecostal

Ponto Urbe, 2009
O livro A Igreja Universal e seus demônios une a profundidade do olhar etnográfico ao rigor histórico e à análise sistemática de dados estatísticos, configurando um quadro contextual da expansão das igrejas pentecostais brasileiras, tendo como centro as práticas rituais da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD).
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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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