OBADARE, Ebenezer. The Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria. London: Zed Books, 2018. 231pp. Pbk. ISBN: 9781786992376. £16.99.
{"title":"The Pentecostal Republic. Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria by Ebenezer Obadare","authors":"Christopher Wadibia","doi":"10.1558/pent.41307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.41307","url":null,"abstract":"OBADARE, Ebenezer. The Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria. London: Zed Books, 2018. 231pp. Pbk. ISBN: 9781786992376. £16.99.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"31 1","pages":"107-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76667414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROSS, Kenneth R., J. Kwabena ASAMOAH-GYADU and Todd M. JOHNSON. Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 538pp. Hbk. ISBN: 9781474412032. £150.
{"title":"Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kenneth R. Ross, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu and Todd M. Johnson.","authors":"G. Bakare","doi":"10.1558/pent.41304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.41304","url":null,"abstract":"ROSS, Kenneth R., J. Kwabena ASAMOAH-GYADU and Todd M. JOHNSON. Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 538pp. Hbk. ISBN: 9781474412032. £150.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"1 1","pages":"110-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77579846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HOCKEN, Peter, Tony L. RICHIE and Christopher A. STEPHENSON (eds). Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology: Interpretations and Intersections. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, volume 34. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 368pp. Pbk. ISBN: 9789004408364. €65.
{"title":"Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology: Interpretations and Intersections by Peter Hocken, Tony L. Richie and Christopher A. Stephenson (eds)","authors":"Michael J. Mcclymond","doi":"10.1558/pent.41305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.41305","url":null,"abstract":"HOCKEN, Peter, Tony L. RICHIE and Christopher A. STEPHENSON (eds). Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology: Interpretations and Intersections. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, volume 34. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 368pp. Pbk. ISBN: 9789004408364. €65.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"24 1","pages":"104-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79254619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores the convergence and divergence in the development of Chinese Christianity and the global surge of Pentecostalism by focusing on the evolution and expansion of an indigenous Pentecostal sector in Chinese Christianity. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork among prosperous urban church communities in coastal southeast China and the growing Chinese merchant diaspora in Europe, I show that the Pentecostal undercurrent sustained by mostly charismatic women and their rural networks has come to surface and been increasingly transformed by an entrepreneurial male-dominated prosperity gospel. The surfacing of this Chinese Pentecostal undercurrent under the current context of China’s state-led modernization and global business outreach has resulted in a combination of entrepreneurial logic, spiritual renewal, and emotional nationalism in a self-envisioned Chinese-led global mission movement, contributing to the growth of a neo-Pentecostal sector of post-Mao, globalizing Chinese Christianity.
{"title":"The Undercurrent Coming to the Surface: Pentecostal Strategies, Entrepreneurship, and the Nation State in the Chinese World","authors":"Nanlai Cao","doi":"10.1558/pent.41047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.41047","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the convergence and divergence in the development of Chinese Christianity and the global surge of Pentecostalism by focusing on the evolution and expansion of an indigenous Pentecostal sector in Chinese Christianity. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork among prosperous urban church communities in coastal southeast China and the growing Chinese merchant diaspora in Europe, I show that the Pentecostal undercurrent sustained by mostly charismatic women and their rural networks has come to surface and been increasingly transformed by an entrepreneurial male-dominated prosperity gospel. The surfacing of this Chinese Pentecostal undercurrent under the current context of China’s state-led modernization and global business outreach has resulted in a combination of entrepreneurial logic, spiritual renewal, and emotional nationalism in a self-envisioned Chinese-led global mission movement, contributing to the growth of a neo-Pentecostal sector of post-Mao, globalizing Chinese Christianity.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"115 1","pages":"8-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86787465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on ethnographic research in a local RCCG congregation, the Jesus House in Midtown, Sweden, this article focuses on the meaning of pastorship to its founding pastor, John, and on the nature of the relationship between John and his congregation. Results show that to John, pastorship means hard work but also an opportunity for social mobility. As he founded the Jesus House, John took on considerable financial risk, realistically turning him into a church-owner. Furthermore, the relationship between pastor and congregation implies a contract where John is expected to protect his congregants from illness and death. As a congregant dies, a crisis hits and the congregation starts to break apart. In order to save his congregation, John first appeals to his own spiritual powers, but then resorts to pleading to the structures of plausibility within the congregation. As the paper argues, this shows the importance of both cognitive and relational aspects of meaning-making.
{"title":"When All Comes Crumbling Down: A Nigerian Pastor and his Congregation in the Diaspora","authors":"A. Lundberg","doi":"10.1558/pent.40301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.40301","url":null,"abstract":"Based on ethnographic research in a local RCCG congregation, the Jesus House in Midtown, Sweden, this article focuses on the meaning of pastorship to its founding pastor, John, and on the nature of the relationship between John and his congregation. Results show that to John, pastorship means hard work but also an opportunity for social mobility. As he founded the Jesus House, John took on considerable financial risk, realistically turning him into a church-owner. Furthermore, the relationship between pastor and congregation implies a contract where John is expected to protect his congregants from illness and death. As a congregant dies, a crisis hits and the congregation starts to break apart. In order to save his congregation, John first appeals to his own spiritual powers, but then resorts to pleading to the structures of plausibility within the congregation. As the paper argues, this shows the importance of both cognitive and relational aspects of meaning-making.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"33 1","pages":"62-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73775308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hermeneutical Spirit: Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century by Amos Yong","authors":"W. Atkinson","doi":"10.1558/pent.41303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.41303","url":null,"abstract":"YONG, Amos. The Hermeneutical Spirit: Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. 340pp. Pbk. ISBN: 9781532604898. $39.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"39 1","pages":"113-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88085319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity (PCC) has had a radical and public impact on African cities, believers and politics. Scholars often describe this impact in terms of the “Pentecostalization” of the public sphere. Looking at Prophet Bushiri and his Enlightened Christian Gathering Church in South Africa, I argue that the ontological situatedness of PCC believers, “unbelievers” and those who shared a spirited world view led to a plurality of public spheres and counter publics. Thus, secular commentators in South Africa did not understand the Pentecostal message or its expression while locals who believed in a spirited world interpreted Prophet Bushiri’s messages and behaviour in terms that dismissed debate in favour of (violent) action. Within PCC circles, which often stretched beyond the local to encompass vast networks of “spiritual kin”, communicative flows were scuppered by an unstable public moved by the Spirit rather than secular political processes.
{"title":"Crooked Prophets, Ungodly Politicians and their Publics: Popular Christian Engagements in South Africa","authors":"I. V. Wyk","doi":"10.1558/pent.40930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.40930","url":null,"abstract":"Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity (PCC) has had a radical and public impact on African cities, believers and politics. Scholars often describe this impact in terms of the “Pentecostalization” of the public sphere. Looking at Prophet Bushiri and his Enlightened Christian Gathering Church in South Africa, I argue that the ontological situatedness of PCC believers, “unbelievers” and those who shared a spirited world view led to a plurality of public spheres and counter publics. Thus, secular commentators in South Africa did not understand the Pentecostal message or its expression while locals who believed in a spirited world interpreted Prophet Bushiri’s messages and behaviour in terms that dismissed debate in favour of (violent) action. Within PCC circles, which often stretched beyond the local to encompass vast networks of “spiritual kin”, communicative flows were scuppered by an unstable public moved by the Spirit rather than secular political processes.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"70 1","pages":"36-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85618626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholars studying Pentecostalism unite in networks such as the GloPent network (represented by this journal) on the basis of the fact that across the globe, we observe the emergence, growth and evolution of organization and networks that are similar, yet also quite strongly rooted in the local context. The emergence of missionary activities from Nigeria and other countries of what is often called the “Global South” is a new phase in the history of Pentecostalism that has now been ongoing for a while. It calls into question the relationship between local contexts and global religious phenomena in new ways: how can we understand these movements as shaped both by “local contexts” (of, in this case Nigeria), as well as part of a global network of Pentecostal movements, in the way they relate to the “local context” of a country that is a former colonial power (and current resource extractor and job provider, via Shell), namely the Netherlands? In this article I want to take a step back and attend to the question: what do we study when we study Nigerian Pentecostal missionaries in Europe? Furthermore, through attending the dimension of time I will explore how this phase in the history of Global Pentecostalism may give new insights into the new complexities of Europe.
{"title":"Conflicting Futures, Entangled Pasts: Nigerian Missionaries in a Post-secular Europe?","authors":"K. Knibbe","doi":"10.1558/pent.37795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.37795","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars studying Pentecostalism unite in networks such as the GloPent network (represented by this journal) on the basis of the fact that across the globe, we observe the emergence, growth and evolution of organization and networks that are similar, yet also quite strongly rooted in the local context. The emergence of missionary activities from Nigeria and other countries of what is often called the “Global South” is a new phase in the history of Pentecostalism that has now been ongoing for a while. It calls into question the relationship between local contexts and global religious phenomena in new ways: how can we understand these movements as shaped both by “local contexts” (of, in this case Nigeria), as well as part of a global network of Pentecostal movements, in the way they relate to the “local context” of a country that is a former colonial power (and current resource extractor and job provider, via Shell), namely the Netherlands? In this article I want to take a step back and attend to the question: what do we study when we study Nigerian Pentecostal missionaries in Europe? Furthermore, through attending the dimension of time I will explore how this phase in the history of Global Pentecostalism may give new insights into the new complexities of Europe.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77733027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay explores the way in which Luke presents tongues speech in Acts as the overcoming of crucial barriers to the forward movement of the Gospel in the Spirit’s power to the nations. In contrast to the fairly recent turn to holistic missions among many Pentecostal scholars, I argue that glossolalia represents strong support in Luke’s second volume for the narrow sense of missions that characterized the apostolic church and the beginnings of the modern Pentecostal movement. This perspective is argued for on the basis of the literary structure of Acts and various hindrances regarding the disciples movement to the nations.
{"title":"The Missionary Nature of Tongues in the Book of Acts","authors":"J. M. Ireland","doi":"10.1558/pent.37954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.37954","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the way in which Luke presents tongues speech in Acts as the overcoming of crucial barriers to the forward movement of the Gospel in the Spirit’s power to the nations. In contrast to the fairly recent turn to holistic missions among many Pentecostal scholars, I argue that glossolalia represents strong support in Luke’s second volume for the narrow sense of missions that characterized the apostolic church and the beginnings of the modern Pentecostal movement. This perspective is argued for on the basis of the literary structure of Acts and various hindrances regarding the disciples movement to the nations.","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82833351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MARSHALL, Kimberly Jenkins. Upward, Not Sunwise: Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism","authors":"S. Glazier","doi":"10.1558/pent.39946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.39946","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41497,"journal":{"name":"PentecoStudies-An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements","volume":"2014 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87742068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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