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What exactly is a family man? Performing and precluding respectable fatherhood in Dominica

Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract How does a father come to be regarded as a “family man” in the Caribbean? By tracking the stories and strivings of various Dominican men who seek recognition as dedicated fathers, this essay unfolds complex answers to this seemingly simple question.
Adom Philogene Heron
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The Indigenous provenance of missio spiritus and the expansion of African Pentecostalism

Ecclesial Futures
  Missio spiritus has been theorized and conceptualized as part of the broader mission of the triune God but not emphasized as an indigenous force within the context of African Pentecostalism. This article aimed to accentuate the indigenous provenance
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Correlates of Continued Church Membership Intention: An Empirical Study of Religion in Ghana

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 123-147, June 2025.
Abstract This study examines the factors influencing continued church membership intention in Ghana, focusing on the key correlates of this behavior. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) the survey data collected were analyzed. The findings highlight charismatic leadership, religious experience, corporate social responsibility, personal needs ...
Andrews Agya Yalley
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Logical and Theoretical Foundations of African Environmental Ethics [PDF]

, 2016
[English] The paper observed that the various ethics that constitute the system of African environmental ethics are not based on or linked to any known African ontology and formal logic.
Ibanga, Diana-Abasi
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Spirit Owners, Ethno‐Racial Critique, and Indigenous Land Struggle in Brazil

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT This article ethnographically explores how the land conflict between Indigenous protesters and agribusiness complexes in Brazil offers insights for critically reevaluating matters of property and belonging—namely, ethno‐racial critiques of who belongs where and what belongs to whom.
LaShandra Sullivan
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Pentecostalism in a rural context: dynamics of religion and development in Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2013
Pentecostal Christianity originated as an urban movement in America, and as it spread to Africa it was initially taken up most enthusiastically in towns and capital cities.
Freeman, Dena
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Negotiating faith in exile: Learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda

Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 114-125, February 2025.
Abstract Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. Partnerships are increasingly promoted through international declarations and bespoke toolkits. Such approaches are abstracted from the historical and contemporary contexts through which faith is negotiated, and through which faith actors ...
Elizabeth Storer
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Brazil’s Broken Cross [PDF]

, 2015
When Dr. Ayres was in Brazil in 2002 on a Fulbright, she learned a lot about the religions in Brazil.
Ayres, Brenda
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Shembe: a Zulu Church [PDF]

, 2018
One of the ceremonies Shembe initiated was a barefoot three-day pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain, Nhlangakazi. Shembe said the Word had led him to this low, flat-topped mountain, as it was the place God would communicate his instructions to his prophet ...
Marinovich, Greg
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Integrating African Pentecostalism into the theological education of South African Universities: An urgent task

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
African Pentecostalism continues to be a growing part of Christianity both in Africa and the rest of the world. Pentecostal churches in Africa are on the rise at a very high rate.
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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