The Pedagogies of Preaching: skill, performance, and charisma in a Pentecostal bible school from Ghana$nElektronische Ressource

This article investigates Pentecostal preaching from a pedagogical angle, more exactly from the point of view of its transmission to apprentice pastors in a Ghanaian seminary or Bible school. My concern is the reproduction of a specific preaching style in this institution, an “international” one, go...

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Main Author: Reinhardt, Bruno (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2017, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-107
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ghana / Pentecostal churches / Sermon / Ministers' training institute / Religious pedagogy
IxTheo Classification:KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDG Free church
RE Homiletics
RF Christian education; catechetics
Further subjects:B Preaching mimesis skill performance charisma Pentecostalism Ghana
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Summary:This article investigates Pentecostal preaching from a pedagogical angle, more exactly from the point of view of its transmission to apprentice pastors in a Ghanaian seminary or Bible school. My concern is the reproduction of a specific preaching style in this institution, an “international” one, governed by explicit and implicit norms. I revisit ethnographically some of these norms as they are conveyed and embodied through lectures about preaching, devotional routines, and student services. I call attention to the emic notion of “flow”, arguing that it lends good legibility to how Pentecostals articulate the multivalent status of preaching as a mimetic skill, a contingent performance, and an authentic expression of charisma. By doing so, flow also provides an interesting entry into the pedagogical dimension of the power assembling and expanding this organization transnationally.
ISSN:1570-0666
Contains:In: Journal of religion in Africa
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340099