Precedents in early charismatic movements, 1900-1960s -- Oriki : genealogy and identity in Pentecostal historiography -- Bakuzufu : contested identities and the quest for power in African Christianity ...

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Introduction: Presence and impact of Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity in Africa / Martin Linhardt -- "Stretching out hands to God " : origins and development of ...

ROME — African Catholics often say that deep respect for religion and a pervasively spiritual worldview on the continent are among their Church’s greatest resources, and of course that’s true.

In the 1960s, isolated researchers began speculating that Africa could become a major center of Christian population by the end of the century. For decades this apparently extravagant prediction was ...

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The principle of submission is central to Pentecostal language. Central to the study is submission of wives to their husbands. This essay examines the 'gospel of submission' in the family with ...

Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel, and a mining economy? Sounds like West Virginia, but here we’re talking about Zambia. In this RD10Q author Naomi Haynes shakes up some widely-held assumptions about ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Most of us have read or heard about European colonists and Christian missionaries ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Pentecostal church in South Africa celebrated Easter Sunday with mass wedding ceremonies for around 3,000 people, with many of them entering into polygamous marriages. The ...