The growth of the literature on Afro-American, Latin American and African Pentecostalism
HOW can one go beyond the existing Compartmentalisation of the research on Pentecostalism, and still escape the danger of using terms and observed traits in certain movements as if they were general categories? The danger of imposing a white' Pentecostal model also exists. The road followed in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[1997]
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 1997, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 311-334 |
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| Summary: | HOW can one go beyond the existing Compartmentalisation of the research on Pentecostalism, and still escape the danger of using terms and observed traits in certain movements as if they were general categories? The danger of imposing a white' Pentecostal model also exists. The road followed in this text places the literature in its socio-cultural conditions and traditions. To be noted is that while it is in Africa that we find the oldest literature (end of the 1940s), with British and French researchers dominating, it is in Latin America that the literature, usually written by Latin Americans, is most plentiful (about 20 books). Interestingly, it is on black US churches that the lack is greatest! This review concludes by arguing for the need of theoretical tools to study religion as a transnational phenomenon. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537909708580808 |