Wabyanga, RK, Nyamnjoh, H and Ugba, A (2021) Innovation or Competition? A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Divine Healing Practices of Pentecostal Africans in Africa and the Diaspora. International Bulletin of Mission Research, 45 (2). pp. 177-185. ISSN 2396-9393
Abstract
This article examines current practices of divine healing of Pentecostal Africans. It provides insights into current developments by using the explanatory concepts of innovation, competition, and agency. The article draws on data obtained through an interdisciplinary, transnational, and multisite investigation of eight Pentecostal churches in Kampala, Nairobi, Cape Town, and London. Methods used included ethnographic observation, visual ethnography, and semistructured interviews. Pentecostal Africans in Africa and the diaspora, this article argues, are simultaneously reenacting centuries-old faith-informed healing practices and creatively reinventing aspects of these practices to assert their relevance in a postmodern world characterized by religious plurality, competition, and secularism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Keywords: | African Pentecostalism; African Pentecostal diaspora; divine healing; innovation; competition |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2021 10:55 |
Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2021 10:55 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/2396939320961102 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172896 |