Driving the Devil Out: Kenya’s Born-Again Election
Neo-Pentecostal or born-again language and understandings are highly prominent in Kenya. They were especially visible during the general election of 2013 in which the victorious Jubilee coalition campaigned using a narrative according to which the nation was being washed clean of past sins, redeemed...
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2015, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 200-220 |
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Kenya
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