The Charismatic City and the Public Resurgence of Religion

The Charismatic City and the Public Resurgence of Religion
Author: N. Wariboko
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137463198

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Two powerful and interrelated transnational cultural expressions mark our epoch, Charismatic spirituality and global city. This book demonstrates how these two forces can be used to inform ethical design of cities and their common social lives to best support human flourishing, spirituality, and social and ecological wellbeing of their residents.

Pentecostal Public Theology

Pentecostal Public Theology
Author: Simo Frestadius
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 367
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 3031613015

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Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism

Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism
Author: Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2024-01-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3031491599

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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between prophecy and politics in South African Pentecostalism. The role and the power of prophecy in enhancing the presence of politicians in the church square are unpacked through historical examples, as well as case studies of contemporary prophets. Solomon Kgatle argues that the influence of prophecy in politics has the potential to weaken the prophetic voice of the church in general and the Pentecostal movement in particular. He proposes a Pentecostal political theology of prophecy. This theology is developed by taking into cognizance the theoretical and theological frameworks of prophetic imagination and pneumatological imagination. In addition, this theology seeks a balance between prophecy and power and prophecy and sovereignty.

Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change

Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change
Author: Roger G. Robins
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-02-08
Genre: Arts in general
ISBN: 3038974536

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change" that was published in Religions

Megachurches and Social Engagement

Megachurches and Social Engagement
Author: Mark J. Cartledge
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004402659

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This book explores the nature and significance of social engagement by megachurches using Anglican and African diaspora Pentecostal case studies. It describes the range of social engagement activities, offering explanations in term of theological motivations and the influence of globalisation.

A Jewish Public Theology

A Jewish Public Theology
Author: Abraham Unger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498535887

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A Jewish Public Theology draws from Halakhah, Jewish law, to address some of the most searing current policy issues. Abraham Unger examines how Jewish tradition speaks to globalization and its attendant political and economic cleavages. Classical Jewish thought sits on a perch outside of the defining parameters of the global political conversation and as such cannot be pigeon holed as populist, leftist, or rightist. Judaism was born in antiquity and therefore predates by millennia these current ideological biases. That intellectual distance, both due to the long arc of Jewish history, and outsider minority status as a tradition, allows for a critical distance. Unger explores how the Jewish tradition compels the living out of a public policy framework through the forging of equitable communities using arguments that go beyond political orthodoxies. In this socially fragile era, the possibility of that message offers a hopeful discourse of significant possibility for all humankind.

Public Righteousness

Public Righteousness
Author: Abimbola A. Adelakun
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2023-05-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666799408

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Public Righteousness: The Performative Ethics of Human Flourishing is driven by the idea that part of what manifests as a disorderly display of virtue in public culture is underlined by the desire to see a more righteous society and an expression of the will to enact such an ideal world into reality. This book re-structures the ferment of such public displays and fashions an ethic that overturns the ostentatious signals of self-righteousness and the fierce contest of animating visions. This book engages the work of social ethicist Nimi Wariboko to explore an idea of public righteousness. In place of smug superiority and phony pieties, the performative ethics that inaugurate this public righteousness offer an intellectual and moral competence that establishes rectitude and culminates in human flourishing.

Witchcraft, Demons and Deliverance

Witchcraft, Demons and Deliverance
Author: Claudia Währisch-Oblau
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2015
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 3643906579

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Beliefs in witchcraft and demons still shape many societies and seem to be increasing rather than disappearing with modernization and urbanization. Witch hunts in Africa and Asia show the scope of the problem. The deliverance practices of pentecostal and charismatic churches are widely controversial and their effects are rather ambiguous. The contributions in this volume, written by experts and practitioners from four continents, analyze these phenomena from the perspectives of intercultural theology, anthropology, and ethnology, and also describe the responses of Catholic and Protestant churches. (Series: Contributions to Mission Science / Intercultural Theology // Beitrage zur Missionswissenschaft / Interkulturellen Theologie - Vol. 32) [Subject: Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology, Religious Studies]

The Spirit of Atonement

The Spirit of Atonement
Author: Steven M. Studebaker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-01-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567682374

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Steven M. Studebaker proposes a Pentecostal approach to a major Christian doctrine, the atonement. The book moves Pentecostal theology of the atonement from a primarily Christocentric and crucicentric register to one that articulates the pneumatological and holistic nature of Pentecostal praxis. Studebaker examines the irony of Classical Pentecostalism relying on the Christocentrism of Protestantism evangelical atonement theology to articulate its experience of the Holy Spirit, as well as the Pneumatological nature of Pentecostal praxis. He then develops a Pentecostal theology of atonement based on the biblical narrative of the Spirit of Pentecost and returns to re-imagine an expanded vision of Pentecostal praxis based on the theological formation of the biblical narrative. The result is a Pentecostal atonement theology that shows the integrated nature of pneumatology, creation and Christology in the biblical narrative of redemption. It gives theological expression to not only the pneumatological nature of Pentecostal praxis, but also the fundamental role of the Holy Spirit in the biblical narrative of redemption. The book challenges popular western atonement theologies to re-think their Christocentrism and crucicentrism as well as their atomistic tendency to separate soteriology into objective (Christological) and subjective (pneumatolgical) categories.

The Rise of Network Christianity

The Rise of Network Christianity
Author: Brad Christerson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019063569X

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Why, when traditionally organized religious groups are seeing declining membership and participation, are networks of independent churches growing so explosively? Drawing on in-depth interviews with leaders and participants, The Rise of Network Christianity explains the social forces behind the fastest-growing form of Christianity in the U.S., which Brad Christerson and Richard Flory have labeled "Independent Network Charismatic." This form of Christianity emphasizes aggressive engagement with the supernatural-including healing, direct prophecies from God, engaging in "spiritual warfare" against demonic spirits--and social transformation. Christerson and Flory argue that macro-level social changes since the 1970s, including globalization and the digital revolution, have given competitive advantages to religious groups organized as networks rather than traditionally organized congregations and denominations. Network forms of governance allow for experimentation with controversial supernatural practices, innovative finances and marketing, and a highly participatory, unorthodox, and experiential faith, which is attractive in today's unstable religious marketplace. Christerson and Flory hypothesize that as more religious groups imitate this type of governance, religious belief and practice will become more experimental, more orientated around practice than theology, more shaped by the individual religious "consumer," and authority will become more highly concentrated in the hands of individuals rather than institutions. Network Christianity, they argue, is the future of Christianity in America.