RT Article
T1 New African initiated Pentecostalism and Charismatics in South Africa
JF Journal of religion in Africa
VO 35
IS 1
SP 66
OP 92
A1 Anderson, Allan Heaton 1949-
LA English
YR 2005
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1641982942
AB The new Pentecostal churches in South Africa, while not as numerically significant as those elsewhere in Africa, follow similar patterns. Tracing the rise of white megachurches in the 1980s and the subsequent emergence of black Charismatic churches similar to those found elsewhere in Africa, this article outlines their ambivalent relationship with the apartheid regime and the increasing disillusionment of black Pentecostals in the run-up to the 1994 elections. It traces the roles of Pentecostal and Charismatic leaders in the new South Africa and the impact of African Charismatic preachers from elsewhere, pilgrimages to other Pentecostal centres and other factors of globalization. (...) (J Relig Afr/DÜI)
K1 Kirche
K1 Religion
K1 Pfingstbewegung
K1 Religionsgemeinschaft
K1 Unabhängige Kirche
K1 Südafrika