The Crisis Model for Managing Change in African Christianity: The Story of St John’s Apostolic Church

Masondo, Sibusiso

doi:10.1163/1572543x-12341262

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“…Hence, they are a strong source of agency over their own personal situation. They do not only take care of the spiritual needs of their own members (Masondo 2013;Pretorius 2004). Masondo (2013) points to the St John's Apostolic Faith Mission that offers these services irrespectively to somebody's church affiliation.…”

Section: Individual Level -Healing Spirituality and Ethics Healingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They do not only take care of the spiritual needs of their own members (Masondo 2013;Pretorius 2004). Masondo (2013) points to the St John's Apostolic Faith Mission that offers these services irrespectively to somebody's church affiliation. Also in other churches healing and other activities are often offered to non-members.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…1 They have an important role in shaping the attitudes, values and ethics of their membership. Numerous studies have shown that AICs in South Africa bear a high degree of transformative potential as defined by Eisenstadt (1968:20) as 'the capacity to legitimise, in religious or ideological terms, the development of new motivations, activities, and institutions' (inter alia Mafuta 2010;Masondo 2013;Meyer 2004;Oosthuizen 1987Oosthuizen , 1997aOosthuizen , 2002Schlemmer 2008).…”

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African Initiated Churches’ potential as development actors

Öhlmann¹,

Frost²,

Gräb³

2016

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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African Initiated Churches (AICs) are not yet recognised as relevant actors of community development interventions. While it has been acknowledged that many of them provide coping mechanisms in adverse environments, support in social transformation and social capital, little information is available on their role as development actors. In this article, we evaluate the potential of AICs as partners of international development agencies for community development. We draw on interviews and focus group discussions with leaders of various AICs conducted in South Africa in February and March 2016. In particular, we examine the churches’ understanding of development, their view on the separation of spiritual and development activities and their priorities. Moreover, we outline the development activities which they are currently engaged in and analyse the structures they have in place to do so. Our findings indicate that AICs are increasingly active in community development and offer various entry points for possible cooperation.

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Section: Individual Level -Healing Spirituality and Ethics Healingmentioning

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Section: Individual Level -Healing Spirituality and Ethics Healingmentioning

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African Initiated Churches’ potential as development actors

Öhlmann¹,

Frost²,

Gräb³

2016

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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“…The effects identified are not confounded by social capital or institutional effects. Individual religiosity seems to foster work ethic and to provide coping mechanisms that find their expression in improved economic status (Freeman 2012;Masondo 2013). The tentative result of a positive relationship of African traditional religion and labor market outcomes resonates with Öhlmann and Hüttel (2018), who show a positive effect of African traditional religion on household income.…”

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Religion and Labor Market Performance: Is It What You Believe or How Much?

Öhlmann

2021

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A growing corpus of literature has explored the influence of religion on economic attitudes and behavior. The present paper investigates the effect of religion on labor market performance using a novel approach to control for the endogeneity of religion. It proposes contingency experience, individual experiences of existential insecurity, as an instrumental variable of a person’s religiosity. The empirical analysis uses data from a household survey in South Africa specifically designed for this study. The econometric approach is the estimation of instrumental variable ordered probit and linear probability models. Using the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS), the analysis differentiates between effects of individual religious intensity and of religious affiliation. The findings show that individual religiosity, measured in the CRS, has a robust and positive effect on labor market performance. Religious affiliation does not seem to affect labor market performance. The positive effect on religiosity is documented in a set of ordered and binary outcome models across different indicators of labor market performance. The study concludes that the intensity of belief exerts an influence on labor market attitudes and outcomes, while affiliation in religious communities (indicating different content of belief) does not seem to make a difference.

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“…The AICs have created an environment where real or perceived threats are dealt with by discovering the source of the threat, taking remedial action to ward off and neutralise what might be the cause of harm and, finally, constructing a 'security fence' to keep out evil (Anderson 2003:181;Oosthuizen 1988:12-13). Masondo (2013) made the point that the AICs provide us with a crisis model for managing change. Through their assortment of rituals, practices and procedures, they help their members to deal with crisis situations.…”

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The African indigenous churches' spiritual resources for democracy and social cohesion

Masondo

2014

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This article outlines resources possessed by the African indigenous churches (AICs) that help them engage with the democratic dispensation and could be used to foster social cohesion in South Africa. It starts off with the premise that social cohesion is that which holds the nation together. The South African rainbow-nation narrative tended to focus on tolerance and there cognition of diversity as strength. Tolerance does not address the fundamental issues that would facilitate cohesion. The idea of cultural justice as advocated by Chirevo Kwenda is seen as the most useful tool to move forward. Cultural justice ensures that all citizens are able to draw on their cultural resources without any fear of being discriminated against. The AICs have an assortment of resources at their disposal that are drawn from African religion,Christianity and Western culture. These resources enable AIC members to appreciate being African and Christian, as well as being South African.

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The Crisis Model for Managing Change in African Christianity: The Story of St John’s Apostolic Church

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

African Initiated Churches’ potential as development actors

African Initiated Churches’ potential as development actors

Religion and Labor Market Performance: Is It What You Believe or How Much?

The African indigenous churches' spiritual resources for democracy and social cohesion

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