
Andreas HeuserUniversity of Basel | UNIBAS · Department of Theology
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Mission continues to be in vogue in film and literature – whether explicitly as in Scorsese’s »Silence« (2016) or in the Netflix remake of »Black Narcissus« (2020), whether en passant as in »The Sand Pebbles« (1966) or implicitly as in Herzog’s »Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin«. The contributions in this volume deal with the staging of mis...
AFOLAYAN, Adeshina, Olajumoke, YACOB-HALISO and Toyin FALOLA (eds). Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa: African Histories and Modernities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 452pp. Pbk. ISBN 9783319749112. €83.
Religions are increasingly being regarded as relevant partners in international development cooperation due to their special attributes. However, to date there has been little research into what the special attributes of religious development agencies actually are or how such organisations employ them. What resources do religious NGOs draw on in de...
Religions are increasingly being regarded as relevant partners in international development cooperation due to their special attributes. However, to date there has been little research into what the special attributes of religious development agencies actually are or how such organisations employ them. What resources do religious NGOs draw on in de...
This article maps the vital debate on Prosperity Gospel in Africa and its relevance for socioeconomic change. Prosperity Gospel centres mainly on speech acts surrounding faith, wealth and victory, combined with ritual enactments around secondary evidences of divine blessings. Claiming this-worldly success and material well-being as signs of grace i...
This article maps the vital debate on Prosperity Gospel in Africa and its relevance for socioeconomic change. Prosperity Gospel centres mainly on speech acts surrounding faith, wealth and victory, combined with ritual enactments around secondary evidences of divine blessings. Claiming this-worldly success and material well-being as signs of grace i...
This article outlines and interrogates the historiography, major debates, critical works, and typological disputes in the study of African Zionist and African Pentecostal Christianities. We contend that despite the many valid historiographic and typological critiques advanced in recent decades, the categories of Zionist and Pentecostal continue to...
In Pentecostal political theology in Africa, there has been a movement from Pentecostal disjunction from state and society towards conjunction on governance levels. This eventually led to disillusionment with Pentecostal policymaking, both within African Pentecostal milieus and public discourses. The entrance of Pentecostal actors onto the politica...
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This chapter presents an argument that leans on Yong's understanding of spiritual warfare as a political practice that aims at winning "Caesar's realm". The approach is to contextualize Pentecostal theologies and practices of spiritual warfare within specific political cultures. It provides a historical treatment of the Pentecostal...
Despite the undoubted importance of pentecostalism in Africa's religious landscapes, little has been written about its political importance, in striking contrast to the plentiful literature on pentecostalism in Latin America. This shows the powerful effect of theory, which has ascribed an apolitical role to African pentecostalism in the context of...
This article focuses on a transnational urban crusade by a British representative of Pentecostal-type Christianity in 2006 in Kumasi, Ghana. Such mass-evangelism events have helped shape a new religious topography in most African countries since the mid-1980s. An integral part of the religious landscape, they accompany a "Pentecostalization" of Afr...
African religion, as stated by Robert Farris Thompson, can be classified as a 'danced belief ' (Chernoff 1999: 172), as a form of worship that is visible and inherently attached to bodily action. The appreciation of such danced belief has led Western scholars of African religion to conversion-like experiences. In a revealing biographical note, the...
The discourse on African Renaissance in South Africa shapes the current stage of a post-apartheid political culture of memory. One of the frameworks of this negotiation of the past is the representation of religion. In particular, religious traditions that formerly occupied a marginalised status in Africanist circles are assimilated into a choreogr...