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African traditions have a significant impact on the societal structures, the Churches, and schools. The secular government also contributed to the increase of gender-based violence since the corrective measures were ...
In 1994 South Africa elected its new democratic government and that brought about change politically, economically, and socially. The political change brought about new transformation that saw people in the society in ...
Some of the New Prophetic Churches apply the fundamentalist literalist reading of the
biblical text in their sermons and theology because of a lack of knowledge and application
of proper reading and interpretation of ...
The study was prompted by the gap in African Pentecostal leadership which led to serious damage to the church. The research examined the case of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe church leadership crisis that culminated ...
Covenant theology seeks to explore the connection between deity and
humanity which spans from the time of creation to the time when God sent his
son to redeem the world from sin. The main tenets of the covenant theology
also ...
One of the contended issues in Pentecostal studies is the exclusion or inclusion of African
Independent Churches (AICs) as part of the Pentecostal tradition. This article resuscitates this
old debate by looking specifically ...
The main question of this theoretical and phenomenological qualitative
research study conducted in Ireland was: What can be done to strengthen the
safeguarding of religious liberties while still allowing effective ...
Religious tourism is commonly known for the visits by believers to religious sites and pilgrimages for religious purposes. In African Pentecostalism, religious tourism is known for the movement of believers from one country ...
The second half of the 20th century saw a sexual revolution against both human nature and God, which turned into widespread confusion and a culture of death. This thesis provides a vital response to the underlying philosophy ...
This study probes the issue of the marginalisation of women in sex work by the church with the aim of developing a liberative praxis for the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) based on the research question: ...
The project focused on appraising the centrality of the land issue in both the first and Second Chimurenga liberation wars in Zimbabwe. A general ideological claim associates land with both the first and Second Chimurenga ...
This research is based on the leaders of intercultural congregations who regularly interact with the ideas, needs and interests of different cultures. To this end, Luhmann's systems theory is being examined with regard to ...
A number of novel scientific and biotechnological exploits and interventions have been recorded in recent times. Of principal concern is the attempt by certain scientific researchers and practitioners to modify the genetic ...
Physical violence from masculinist power in South Africa continues to be an obstacle to growth and progress. In the second quarter of the 2023 financial year, approximately 6945 people were murdered in South Africa. This ...
Biblical archaeology primarily aims to describe, in this case, the history of the early Israelites using
only rationalistic reasoning while disregarding the revelation that informs the biblical text on
which the archaeology ...
kgatle, mookgo solomon(taylor and francis, 2024-07-17)
This article problematises the inward-looking approach adopted by classical Pentecostalism in a South African context. A literature review on White-led classical Pentecostal churches reveals that in their early development, ...
The conduct and decisions of three disparate groups: a de facto government (the Taliban), an invading state force (the US-led Coalition forces) and an internal armed force (the Islamic State), each with their own specific ...
Göbekli Tepe is an ancient site in upper Mesopotamia recognised as an artificial mound by K Schmidt in 1994. Circles comprising large monolithic stones, described as T-pillars, were interpreted by Schmidt as ‘monumental’ ...
Economies of the African continent have been faced with difficulties in the last decade caused by various factors including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), unemployment, poverty and so forth. In the South African ...
A scholarship of engagement is an approach that connects knowledge systems to the
challenges facing society in a meaningful way. This article reviews the literature on
Pentecostal missiology to make a new contribution ...