Familiar Questions and New Directions: African Scholarship on African Pentecostalism Today
This review essay examines recent scholarship on African Pentecostalism, focusing on two edited volumes and three monographs published by African scholars since 2023. In discussing these works, the essay traces three interconnected challenges: scholarly positionality and collaboration, definitional...
| Subtitles: | African Pentecostalism |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Pneuma
Year: 2025, Volume: 47, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 385-405 |
| Further subjects: | B
African Pentecostalism
B Methodology B Global Christianity B positionality |
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| Summary: | This review essay examines recent scholarship on African Pentecostalism, focusing on two edited volumes and three monographs published by African scholars since 2023. In discussing these works, the essay traces three interconnected challenges: scholarly positionality and collaboration, definitional debates, and methodological innovation. For each challenge, the essay shows how the scholarship under review presents both the problem and productive ways forward. A common theme throughout is to resist the confining frames of scholarly identity, denominational boundaries, and well-worn debates in order to trace with agility and epistemological transparency the movement’s sprawling connections. The essay concludes that African Pentecostal Studies remains a crucial frontier for understanding global Christianity when scholars follow the innovative and often surprising turns their field presents. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0747 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pneuma
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10155 |
