Genders Sexualities And Spiritualities In African Pentecostalism

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Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism

Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030423964
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism written by Chammah J. Kaunda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities. In the last three decades, African Pentecostalism has emerged as one the most visible and profound aspects of religious change on the continent, and is a social force that straddles cultural, economic, and political spheres. Its conventional and selective literal interpretations of the Bible with respect to gender and sexualities are increasingly perceived as exhibiting a strong influence on many aspects of social and public institutions and their moral orientations. This collection features articles which examine sexualities and genders in African Pentecostalism using interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical approaches grounded within traditional African thought systems, with the goal of enabling a broader understanding of Pentecostalism and sexualities in Africa.

Christianity, Sexuality and Citizenship in Africa

Author : Adriaan van Klinken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638248
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianity, Sexuality and Citizenship in Africa by : Adriaan van Klinken

Download or read book Christianity, Sexuality and Citizenship in Africa written by Adriaan van Klinken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interconnections between Christianity, sexuality and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa, chronicling the ways in which citizenship in the region has undergone profound changes in recent decades as a result of growing interaction between Christianity and politics, the impact of the HIV epidemic, debates about women's reproductive rights, and the growing visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. Case studies examine the emergence of Christianity, especially in its Pentecostal-Charismatic forms, as a public religion, and how this emergence has meant that Christian actors, beliefs and practices have increasingly come to manifest themselves in the public sphere. The contributors assess how many political and religious leaders are invested in a popular ideology of the heterosexual family as the basis of nation-building, and how this defines narratives of nationhood and shapes notions of citizenship. Additional case studies focus on the emergence of sexuality as a critical site of citizenship and nationhood in postcolonial Africa, and address the difficulties that LGBT communities face in claiming recognition from the state. Offering case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa and spanning several academic disciplines and critical perspectives, this book will be of interest to researchers seeking to understand the complex intersections of religion, sexuality, politics and citizenship across the region. This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

Pentecostalism and Cultism in South Africa

Author : Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303069724X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Pentecostalism and Cultism in South Africa by : Mookgo Solomon Kgatle

Download or read book Pentecostalism and Cultism in South Africa written by Mookgo Solomon Kgatle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostalism is a growing movement in world Christianity. However, the growth of Pentecostalism in South Africa has faced some challenges, including the abuse of religion by some prophets. This book first names these prophets and the churches they lead in South Africa, and then makes use of literary and media analysis to analyse the religious practices by the prophets in relation to cultism. Additionally, the book analyses the “celebrity cult” and how it helps promote the prophets in South Africa. The purpose of this book is threefold: First, to draw parallels between the abuse of religion and cultism. Second, to illustrate that it is cultic tendencies, including the celebrity cult, that has given rise to many prophets in South Africa. Last, to showcase that the challenge for many of these prophets is that the Pentecostal tradition is actually anti-cultism, and thus there is a need for them to rethink their cultic tendencies in order for them to be truly relevant in a South African context.

Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism

Author : Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031491599
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism by : Mookgo Solomon Kgatle

Download or read book Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism written by Mookgo Solomon Kgatle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between prophecy and politics in South African Pentecostalism. The role and the power of prophecy in enhancing the presence of politicians in the church square are unpacked through historical examples, as well as case studies of contemporary prophets. Solomon Kgatle argues that the influence of prophecy in politics has the potential to weaken the prophetic voice of the church in general and the Pentecostal movement in particular. He proposes a Pentecostal political theology of prophecy. This theology is developed by taking into cognizance the theoretical and theological frameworks of prophetic imagination and pneumatological imagination. In addition, this theology seeks a balance between prophecy and power and prophecy and sovereignty.

Queen of Sheba

Author : Maseno, Loreen
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 3863099761
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Queen of Sheba written by Maseno, Loreen and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa

Author : Adriaan van Klinken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197644155
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa by : Adriaan van Klinken

Download or read book Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa written by Adriaan van Klinken and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving the opposition to homosexuality and LGBTI rights in African societies. This book nuances that picture, by drawing attention to discourses emerging in Africa itself that engage with religion, specifically Christianity, in progressive and innovative ways--in support of sexual diversity and the quest for justice for LGBTI people. The authors show not only that African Christian traditions harbor strong potential for countering conservative anti-LGBTI dynamics; but also that this potential has already begun to be realized, by various thinkers, activists and movements across the continent. Their ten case studies document how leading African writers are reimagining Christian thought; how several Christian-inspired groups are transforming religious practice; and how African cultural production creatively appropriates Christian beliefs and symbols. In short, the book explores Christianity as a major resource for a liberating imagination and politics of sexuality and social justice in Africa today. Foregrounding African agency and progressive religious thought, this highly original intervention counterbalances our knowledge of secular approaches to LGBTI rights in Africa, and powerfully decolonizes queer theory, theology and politics.

The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches

Author : Afe Adogame
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003861105
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches written by Afe Adogame and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches provides a survey of global megachurch phenomena, with an international slate of authors introducing existing and emerging research on a wide variety of relevant topics. Over the past decade, the field of megachurch studies has matured and become global in its scope and orientation. The Handbook offers 33 chapters by top scholars in the field, focusing in particular on: The location, demographic nature, and transnational connections of megachurches. Megachurch worship, hermeneutics, and theology (in theory and practice). Megachurch institutional dynamics. The various ways that megachurches have both influenced and been influenced by their social contexts in terms of class, age, gender, sexuality, and pop culture. The Handbook's interdisciplinary orientation makes it essential reading for sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, media specialists, pop culture observers, business strategists, leadership consultants, marketing analysts, scholars of religion, and Christian historians, theologians, and missiologists. Experienced scholars of megachurches will gain valuable insight into aspects of megachurch research beyond their own specializations. Scholars new to the field will find the chapters useful as signposts for where to begin their own academic exploration. Christian pastors and laypeople will learn more about this increasingly prominent and influential form of their faith.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303149167X
Total Pages : 995 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities by : Ezra Chitando

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities written by Ezra Chitando and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States

Author : Paul J. Palma
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031133714
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States by : Paul J. Palma

Download or read book Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States written by Paul J. Palma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an historical and comparative profile of classical pentecostal movements in Brazil and the United States in view of their migratory beginnings and transnational expansion. Pentecostalism’s inception in the early twentieth century, particularly in its global South permutations, was defined by its grassroots character. In contrast to the top-down, hierarchical structure typical of Western forms of Christianity, the emergence of Latin American Pentecostalism embodied stability from the bottom up—among the common people. While the rise to prominence of the Assemblies of God in Brazil, the Western hemisphere’s largest (non-Catholic) denomination, demanded structure akin to mainline contexts, classical pentecostals such as the Christian Congregation movement cling to their grassroots identity. Comparing the migratory and missional flow of movements with similar European and US roots, this book considers the prospects for classical Brazilian pentecostals with an eye on the problems of church growth and polity, gender, politics, and ethnic identity.

World Christianity and Covid-19

Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031125703
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book World Christianity and Covid-19 written by Chammah J. Kaunda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how Christians around the world have made sense of the meaning of suffering in the context of and post-COVID-19. It interrogates the question of God, suffering, and structural injustice. Further, it discusses the Christian response to the compounded threats of racial injustice, climate injustice, wildlife injustice, gender injustice, economic injustice, political injustice, unjust in the distributions of the vaccine and future challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. The contributions are authored by scholars, students, activists and clergy from various fields of inquiry and church traditions. The volume seeks to deepen Christian understanding of the meaning of suffering in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the fresh ways the pandemic can contribute to reconceptualizing human relations and specifically, what it means to be human in the context of suffering, the place of or justifications of God in suffering, human place in creation, and the role of the church in re-articulating the theological meanings and praxes of suffering for today.

Salvation in African Christianity

Author : Rodney L. Reed
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839739290
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Salvation in African Christianity written by Rodney L. Reed and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What must I do to be saved?” That question, raised in the book of Acts by the Philippian jailer, is a question for the ages. Yet what, even, does it mean to be saved? Is salvation for this life or the next? Is it purely spiritual or does it have physical and material implications? Can salvation be lost? Do we determine who will be saved or does God? What role does Christ play in salvation? Such are the seemingly unending questions soteriology strives to answer. In this eighth volume from the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, African theologians articulate their understanding of salvation – and its widespread implications for life and practice – in conversation with Scripture and the rich diversity of an African cultural context. Salvation is examined from historical, philosophical, and theological lenses, and scholars address topics as wide-ranging as conversion, ethnicity, fertility, poverty, prosperity, the Trinity, exclusivism, African Pentecostalism, rural community, eschatology, wholeness, and atonement. It is a powerful exploration of the holistic nature of salvation as articulated in Scripture and understood by the African church.

Alterity and the Evasion of Justice

Author : Deanna Ferree Womack
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506491324
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Alterity and the Evasion of Justice written by Deanna Ferree Womack and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a contribution to the Fortress series on World Christianity as Public Religion, this volume delves into questions of religious alterity and justice in World Christianity. This volumeasks what histories, practices, or identities have been left invisible in the field of World Christianity, and emphasizes liberationist concerns to consider what the field has overlooked or misrepresented. It recognizes that World Christianity scholarship has elevated voices of marginalized Christians from the Global South and challenged Eurocentric modes in the study of religion, but scholars of World Christianity must also attend to the margins of the field itself. Attention to the overlooked "other" within World Christianity scholarship reveals communities that have been excluded and questions of justice within the Global South that have been neglected. This volume points to gender, sexuality, and race as intersectional themes ripe for exploration within the field, while also identifying areas of study that have fallen outside the dominant World Christianity narrative, such as the Middle East and the theological expression of indigenous and aboriginal communities in the aftermath of European colonization. The contributors to this volume advance a robust intercontinental conversation around alterity and the evasion of justice in World Christianity.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Schools and Religion

Author : Jo Fraser-Pearce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350297283
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Schools and Religion written by Jo Fraser-Pearce and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Schools and Religion provides the first truly global scan of contemporary issues and debates around the world regarding the relationship(s) between the state, schools and religion. Organized around specific contested issues - from whether or not mindfulness should be practised in schools, to appropriate and inappropriate religious attire in schools, to long-term battles about evolution, sexuality, and race, to public funding - Fraser-Pearce and Fraser carefully curate chapters by leading experts exploring these matters and others in a diverse range of national settings. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Schools and Religion offers a refreshingly new international perspective.

Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446672
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism, the contributors reflect on how Pentecostalism contributes to the empowerment of marginalised societies, empowers women through the matarenda practices, and contributes to the development of wider society.

Chihera in Zimbabwe

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031124669
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Chihera in Zimbabwe written by Ezra Chitando and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwean social media has been awash with images of a woman character, spirit, or concept called Chihera. Traditionally, a woman descending from the Mhofu (Eland) lineage/totem is known as Chihera. In the cumulative tradition of the Shona (a Zimbabwean ethnic group), Chihera is a fiercely independent, assertive, free spirited, and no nonsense woman. This volume seeks to deepen reflections on the Chihera phenomenon in the context of the search for gender justice in Zimbabwe and Africa. The authors reflect on how this radical indigenous feminist ethic circulating on social media can animate the quest for Zimbabwean and African women’s full liberation from patriarchy and all oppressive forces. They grapple with the issue of generating culturally sensitive theories and approaches to galvanize the struggle for African women’s liberation in post-colonial settings. Second, they locate the Chihera mystique in the context of the practical struggle for women’s empowerment. Third, the volume illustrates how the Chihera phenomenon could be utilized for gender justice in Zimbabwe and beyond.

Space and Place as a Topic for Public Theologies

Author : Thomas Wabel
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643914504
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Space and Place as a Topic for Public Theologies written by Thomas Wabel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public theologies reflect on the contextuality of the Christian religion. Much of this contextuality is dependent on place: place as the culture and the society in which religions are situated, place as the position from where a theologian speaks, place as the biographical contingencies that shape people's lives. Moreover, public theologies ask for the contribution of Christian ethics to society, thereby shaping the social, cultural, and religious space to which they belong. The contributions in this volume analyse the categories of space and place in order to deepen the understanding of contextuality, thereby taking up some of the challenges presented by the so-called "spatial turn".

Contextual Theology

Author : Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000217426
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Contextual Theology written by Sigurd Bergmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method, but also produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations. The authors discuss some prioritised thematic perspectives with an emphasis on liberating paths, and expand the ongoing discussion on the methodology of theology into new areas. Themes such as interreligious plurality, global capitalism, ecumenical liberation theology, eco-anxiety and the anthropocene, postcolonialism, gender, neo-pentecostalism, world theology, and reconciliation are examined in situated depth. Additionally, voices from Indigenous lands, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe and North America enter into a dialogue on what it means to contextualise theology in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world. Such a comprehensive discussion of new ways of thinking about and doing contextual theology will be of great use to scholars in Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Global Studies.