Explaining the Growth and Legitimation of the Pentecostal Movement in Africa

Adeboye, Olufunke

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“…This makes ecumenical dialogue the central factor for the impact of Christianity on the broader theology of religions. Some Pentecostals are sceptical about relating with the Christians in other traditions other than Pentecostal churches (Adeboye 2018). Pentecostals, even with the tremendous growth over the years, still need encounter with the Christians of other traditions.…”

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Missiology as encounterology: Pentecostal considerations

Kgatle

2024

In die Skriflig / In Luce Verbi

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Encounterology is a missiological approach to the theology of religions that was developed by J.N.J. Kritzinger – a South African missiologist. The approach recognises the encounter between people of different faiths or religions such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and others. Encounterology is a theology of a particular interfaith encounter that is relevant to the theology of religions. Encounterology is discussed here as a theology relevant to addressing the differences that exist between Christian denominations and their theological approaches. This article engages encounterology from a Pentecostal theological perspective to develop an authentic and transformative Pentecostal theology of encounters. This article builds from the Pentecostal theology of encounters with the Holy Spirit and fellow human beings into the development of the theology of interreligious encounters. In addition, encounterology is relevant in Pentecostalism in the encounters between the movement and other Christian traditions. Therefore, the theology of religions should consider not only exclusivist, inclusivist and pluralist approaches, but also encounterology as an authentic and transformative approach for both interreligious and ecumenical dialogue.Contribution: This article used encounterology as an important framework for a Pentecostal theology of interreligious and ecumenical dialogue. This article has made a new contribution to the theology of religions in the methodological and theoretical field in proposing encounterology to existing approaches such as exclusivist, inclusivist and pluralist approaches.

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Missiology as encounterology: Pentecostal considerations

Kgatle

2024

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“…Although the events of Asuza Street (1906)(1907)(1908)(1909), Los Angeles, have been arguably regarded as the origin of global Pentecostalism (Yong and Alexander 2011), there are other origins within Africa that perhaps were not directly influenced by the former (see Igboin 2017;Kalu 2008;Paas 2016;Wariboko 2014). Olufunke Adeboye (2018) argues that care must be taken in tracing the origins and history of Pentecostalism to the events of Asuza Street, because such attempts affect identity-framing. She posits that there are many African individuals who displayed full manifestations of Pentecostalism without recourse to the Asuza Street revival.…”

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Nigerian Pentecostalism, Alternative State, and the Question of Accountability

Igboin

2020

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The debate on the status of the Nigerian state has been controversial, but it portends more towards a failing state, because it has low to very low levels of state capacity. Most state institutions do not have the capacity to inspire socio-economic confidence in the citizenry. Coupled with prevailing insecurity and the inability of the state to address it, many people find an alternative source of hope and confidence within Christianity, and particularly an African Pentecostal state-like formation that makes its leadership a multinational and cross-regional political leadership of a sort. While the political leadership of the failing state would be examined as the main cause for thriving Pentecostalism, there remains the question of accountability on both sides of the spectrum; especially as both concern the same citizenship, whom I will argue are cheated both ways, and yet somehow hold ambivalent attitudes towards accountability. Since there is little attention devoted to demand for accountability at both state and alternative state levels, this paper will do a contrastive analysis of both leaderships and show that the issue of accountability remains unresolved at both ends.

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“…Anthropologists often use the term Pentecostalization to refer to the infusion of Pentecostal discourse and practice into other denominations (Adeboye 2018;Akoko 2007;Chewachong 2017;Meyer 1998) or public spheres seemingly beyond the purview of any church (de Witte 2005;Meyer 2004Meyer , 2019. In delineating this Pentecostalization of psychiatry, I center medicine as one such public arena, and the subjects of medicine-patients-as actively invested in their own health in and beyond the clinic.…”

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The Woman Who Testified: The Pentecostalization of Psychiatry in Yaoundé, Republic of Cameroon

Durham

2021

Med Anthropol Q

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This article takes a case study approach to the predominance of Pentecostalism, a Christian movement emphasizing conversion and testimony to divine grace, among patients at Sommeil Psychiatric Hospital in Yaoundé, Republic of Cameroon. I argue that certain patients' desire to serve as témoignage (French) or "testimony" (English) to life before and after Sommeil-to the efficacy of biomedical psychiatry-indicates a pattern in which patients drew on their Pentecostal affiliation to navigate psychiatric treatment. Grounded in 24 months of fieldwork with patients and families and hospital staff, I contend that patient experiences of treatment imperfectly paralleled prior and ongoing experiences of Pentecostalism, including cultivation of the desire to convert and testify. Taking this cultivation of desire as a form of subject-making, I conceptualize the entanglement of religious and therapeutic subjectivities at Sommeil as a patient-driven "Pentecostalization" of psychiatry, which offers patients plural possibilities and timeframes of health. [psychiatry, health, Pentecostalism, subjectivity, time]

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Explaining the Growth and Legitimation of the Pentecostal Movement in Africa

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Missiology as encounterology: Pentecostal considerations

Missiology as encounterology: Pentecostal considerations

Nigerian Pentecostalism, Alternative State, and the Question of Accountability

The Woman Who Testified: The Pentecostalization of Psychiatry in Yaoundé, Republic of Cameroon

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