Pentecostals in retreat : changing cultural and religious identities
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Gorman, Roger Dale
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1998-06
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Dissertation
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This study is about the identity of Coloured Pentecostals living in
Retreat, Western Cape. It concerns the effects which social change has upon boundary markers and worldview. It uses Robert Schreiter's semiotic approach to culture. Schreiter says that social change along with boundary markers and worldview are the basis for changing identities. This study applies Schreiter's approach to a case study to see if it will work. The study considers the traditional Coloured Pentecostal Culture's identity represented by the older generation of Pentecostals in Retreat. It then considers some responses to those traditional boundary markers and worldview given primarily
by the younger generation of Pentecostals. It then suggests some possible solutions to the problems which have been identified as the reasons for the changing cultural and religious identity of the Coloured Pentecostal Culture .
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Gorman, Roger Dale (1998) Pentecostals in retreat : changing cultural and religious identities, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16859>