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The Pentecostal Kairos: Methodological and Theoretical Implications

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The massive growth of Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCCs) constitutes a Pentecostal kairos in the global history of the Christian movement. In its current form, the Pentecostal movement spreads itself into politics, economics, cultural and social spheres, interacting with various disciplines all at once. Yet the massive growth and impact of PCCs has not attracted equivalent attention from scholars of religion in the African continent. This article highlights the PCCs’ kairos and the pentecostalisation of religion and society. It also challenges African scholars of religion to undertake interdisciplinary collaborative research projects in order to make meaningful contributions to the methods and theoretical implications for teaching religion in the PCCs kairos.

An earlier version of this paper first appeared as Dube, M.W. “The Pentecostal Church Kairos: Methodological and Theoretical Implications for the Study of Religion in Africa,” BOLESWA 4 (1), 2012, 202–214.

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    In this paper, Pentecostal Charismatic Churches will be used to cover classical and neo- Pentecostal churches and movements, but it will not include African Independent/Instituted/Initiated/Indigenous Churches (AICs).

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Dube, M.W. (2018). The Pentecostal Kairos: Methodological and Theoretical Implications. In: Togarasei, L. (eds) Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78565-3_16

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