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Pentecostalism in Africa
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ISBN: 9004281878 9789004281875 9789004281868 900428186X 1322223416 Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston

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Bringing together prominent Africanist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of the social, cultural and political impact of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in postcolonial sub Saharan Africa.


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Faith in flux : Pentecostalism and mobility in rural Mozambique
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ISBN: 9780812249989 0812249984 081229484X Year: 2018 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Press

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Anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana arrived in Africa to study the much reported "explosion" of Pentecostalism, the spread of which has indeed been massive. It is the continent's fastest growing form of Christianity and one of the world's fastest growing religious movements. Yet Premawardhana found no evidence for this in the province of Mozambique where he worked. His research suggests that much can be gained by including such places in the story of global Christianity, by shifting attention from the well-known places where Pentecostal churches flourish to the unfamiliar places where they fail.In Faith in Flux, Premawardhana documents the ambivalence with which Pentecostalism has been received by the Makhuwa, an indigenous and historically mobile people of northern Mozambique. The Makhuwa are not averse to the newly arrived churches-many relate to them powerfully. Few, however, remain in them permanently. Pentecostalism has not firmly taken root because it is seen as one potential path among many-a pragmatic and pluralistic outlook befitting a people accustomed to life on the move.This phenomenon parallels other historical developments, from responses to colonial and postcolonial intrusions to patterns of circular migration between rural villages and rising cities. But Premawardhana primarily attributes the religious fluidity he observed to an underlying existential mobility, an experimental disposition cultivated by the Makhuwa in their pre-Pentecostal pasts and carried by them into their post-Pentecostal futures. Faith in Flux aims not to downplay the influence of global forces on local worlds, but to recognize that such forces, "explosive" though they may be, never succeed in capturing the everyday intricacies of actual lives.

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Pentecostalism --- Social mobility --- Residential mobility --- Makhuwa (African people) --- Conversion --- Pentecostal churches --- Mozambique --- República de Moçambique --- República Popular de Moçambique --- Moçambique --- Mo-san-pi-kʻo --- People's Republic of Mozambique --- Mozambik --- Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika Mozambik --- NRM (Mozambique) --- NR Mozambik --- State of Mozambique --- Mosambiek --- Mosambik --- Volksrepublik Mosambik --- Msumbiji --- Província de Moçambique (Portugal) --- Province de Mozambique (Portugal) --- Colónia de Moçambique (Portugal) --- Mozambico --- Portuguese East Africa --- Religious life and customs. --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Macua (African people) --- Makua (African people) --- Makwa (African people) --- Wakua (African people) --- Wamakua (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Mobility, Residential --- Urban population movements --- Migration, Internal --- Population geography --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- Charismatic Movement --- Charismatic Renewal Movement --- Latter Rain movement --- Neo-Pentecostalism --- Pentecostal movement --- Christianity --- Gifts, Spiritual --- Glossolalia --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:316.331H412 --- #SBIB:316.331H381 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Morfologie van de godsdiensten: Protestantisme - Reformatie --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Afrika --- Conversion. --- Anthropology. --- Folklore. --- Linguistics. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies.

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