The Use and Abuse of the Spirit in Pentecostalism (eBook, ePUB)

A South African Perspective
Redaktion: Kgatle, Mookgo S.; Anderson, Allan H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a pneumatological reflection on the use and abuse of Spirit in light of the abuse of religion within South African Pentecostalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000287196
• Artikelnr.: 60428842

Autorenporträt

Mookgo S. Kgatle is Associate Professor of Missiology at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He completed his PhD (Theology) from the University of Pretoria in 2016. Kgatle is a National Research Foundation (NRF) Y-Rated researcher (2019-2024) in the area of African Pentecostalism. He is the visiting scholar at the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies-University of Birmingham (2020-2021). Kgatle has published several peer-reviewed articles in various high impact journals and the book The Fourth Pentecostal Wave in South Africa: A Critical Engagement (Routledge, 2019). Allan H. Anderson is Emeritus Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham, an internationally well-known scholar in the study of worldwide Pentecostalism, with particular interest in southern Africa. He is the author of nine books (translated into four languages) and many articles, and has joint-edited four collections on global Pentecostalism. He is a founder-member of the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism, was editor of PentecoStudies, and serves on the international editorial board of five academic journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: The Abuse of the Spirit in Some New Prophetic Churches in South African Pentecostalism 2 "The Weird You Shall Always Have": A Historical Look into the Causative Factors behind Neo-Prophetic Scandals in South Africa 3 The Abuse of the Spirit: An Immigration-Imported New Wave or a Development of Pre-Existing Local Beliefs? 4 Whence Have All the Prophets Come?: A Reflection on Neoprophets and their Oracular Forms 5 "Simon the Sorcerer Offered Them Money" (Acts 8:19): Some Pentecostals have gone Commercial instead of Evangelical 6 Mission as Discernment of Spirits in the Advent of the Abuse of Prophecy within Newer Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity in South Africa 7 Rethinking the Seven Angels Ministry's Praxis of Pneumatology as Seen through the Lens of Decoloniality 8 Pneumatology and Prophetic Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity during COVID-19 in South Africa 9 The Poor's Weapon Against inequality?: A Critique of the Public Role of Neo-Pentecostalism in Unequal South Africa