African Pentecostalism: An Introduction
The late Ogbu Kalu was a prominent and thoughtful voice in the study of African Christianity. In this book, he explores the changing faces of African Pentecostalism. He has two agendas. First, his approach to the history of Pentecostalism in Africa is resolutely Afro-centric. For Kalu, Pentecostalis...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 131-133 |
| Review of: | African Pentecostalism (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008) (Soothill, Jane)
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| Summary: | The late Ogbu Kalu was a prominent and thoughtful voice in the study of African Christianity. In this book, he explores the changing faces of African Pentecostalism. He has two agendas. First, his approach to the history of Pentecostalism in Africa is resolutely Afro-centric. For Kalu, Pentecostalism is an indigenous movement first and foremost, even its most recent manifestation: the charismatic or neo-Pentecostal movement. As a cultural insider he writes to recover the African voice from what he sees as a distorting Western scholarly agenda. The book, he argues, “preserves the indigenous voice” (3) to reveal the roots of African Pentecostalism in indigenous pneumatology and older African religious revivals. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq012 |