Michael Bergunder's scientific contributions
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Publications (16)
This chapter highlights a number of issues that are considered important in studying Pentecostalism as a global religion. Pentecostalism plays a central role in the rise and spread of imaginaries that are not confined to local or national settings but construe and make sense of the world at large and determine people's position and radius of mobili...
This chapter compares methodological developments in general historical research with some interpretive approaches to Pentecostal history. Writing history is described as accurate research of relevant events and facts in order to arrive at coherent conclusions and interpretations concerning the past that will be of use for the present. Revivalist m...
This chapter attempts to define Pentecostalism/s, in view of the fact that definitions are often static and prone to generating confusion. The study of Pentecostalism is a developing field, and this chapter attempts to embrace its different methodological and theoretical aspects from a global perspective. The globalization of various kinds of Pente...
This chapter deals with the interdisciplinary discourse of Pentecostal studies to determine how distinctly anthropological threads have contributed to it. The three threads pulled out are those dealing with Pentecostal cultural process, everyday life, and relation to modernity. In the first two areas, anthropology has made unique contributions. It...
This chapter discusses the role of essentialist and normative elements in the study of Pentecostalism. In studying Pentecostalism, essentialist and normative tendencies stem from the identity of Pentecostalism itself and from its perception by others. Any scholar studying this form of Christianity must therefore reflect on them, especially when int...
"With its remarkable ability to adapt to many different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world's fastest growing religious movement. More than five hundred million adherents worldwide have reshaped Christianity itself. Yet some fundamental questions in the study of global Pentecostalism, and even in what we call "Pentecostalism," remain larg...
With its remarkable ability to adapt to different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world's fastest growing religious movement. More than five hundred million adherents worldwide have reshaped Christianity itself. Yet some fundamental questions in the study of global Pentecostalism, and even in what we call “Pentecostalism,” remain largely un...
This chapter deals with practical theology. The discipline of practical theology is one that appears to be in constant redefinition in recent times, although there might at last be some consensus emerging. It was once regarded as the crown of theological study, placed toward the end of theological education for the ordained ministry. At this point...
This chapter deals with the state of Pentecostal theology. It gives a succinct, balanced, and informative description of the main systematic contributions for developing Pentecostal theology. It discusses both the question of methodology and the main loci of Pentecostal theologies. Furthermore, it looks at the state of Pentecostal theological schol...
This chapter deals with the sociology of religion. The sociology of religion is one of the oldest branches of the discipline of sociology. Despite its contrasting and divergent approaches, the sociology of religion has historically and primarily focused on the dialectical relationship that religion has with wider society. Society is the main source...
The goal of this chapter is to comment on the scholarship on gender in the Pentecostal movement and to provide some case contextualization from ethnographic field research with Pentecostals in Colombia. In the religious landscape of Colombia, the term Pentecostal evokes a single denomination, the “Jésus Sólo” Iglesia Pentecostal Unida (IPU). The IP...
This chapter discusses ecumenism. Ecumenism is a topic that many Pentecostals find difficult to discuss. This is in part because most Pentecostals know very little about the subject, often just enough to condemn it. It is time for Pentecostals to take their rightful place at the table of the church. In order for them to do so successfully, they nee...
This chapter illustrates Pentecostal theologies of mission and theologies of religions. It also attempts to articulate a Pentecostal theology of the Pentecostals. Pentecostal missiology, theology of religions, interreligious encounter, and dialogue are interrelated and interdependent. Missiology, theology of religions, and interreligious dialogue a...
This chapter deals with the cultural turn. Cultural studies and similar designations mark a diverse field of related theoretical approaches, sometimes labeled as the cultural turn. Cultural studies are concerned with the role of cultural practices in the construction of contexts of human life as milieus of power. They have deeply influenced the hum...
This chapter investigates religious beliefs, experiences, and behavior in relation to psychological concepts and theories. Psychological research on Pentecostal religiosity is structured by the distinction between two research perspectives. The first perspective analyzes exogenous psychological causes and consequences of Pentecostalism. Pentecostal...
This chapter illustrates how people tell the story of their conversion. To analyze the success of Pentecostalism worldwide, it is imperative to understand the Pentecostal conversion experience. It follows a historical and phenomenological approach to the conversion narrative, analyzing it as a social construction and not necessarily as a factual de...
Citations
... The fastest-growing movement in Christianity is the Pentecostal church. (Miller et al., 2013, Anderson et al., 2010. In the 1960s, the Pentecostal movement evolved into the charismatic movement known as neo-Pentecostalism and neo-charismatic and spread widely (Williams, 1984, 205, Stanley M. Burges andEduard M. Van Der Maas, 2003). ...
... Yet, there is relatively little reflection within religious studies on how to write a global history that concentrates on the notion of religion. The discipline's engagement with global history often appears to be rather tangential, although important work on in this direction has already been done (e.g., Bergunder 2010;Bergunder 2014;Bergunder 2016;Bergunder 2020;Kollmar-Paulenz 2010;Kollmar-Paulenz 2013;Hermann 2015;Stegmann 2018). Likewise, while religion is often acknowledged to be of paramount importance by global historians, they rarely engage with religious studies. ...
Reference: Global Religious History
... B. Joshua," was a prominent and controversial Nigerian Charismatic pastor and televangelist who founded a Christian megachurch outside of Lagos (Emmanuel TV 2022; Nche 2021). This church -named The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) -is part of a global Pentecostal and Charismatic movement, which is the fastest growing form of Christianity in the world (Anderson et al. 2010;Robbins 2004). Pentecostalism took hold in Africa during the 1980s and has since become widespread across the continent (Marshall 2009;Meyer 2004;Tazanu 2016;Tokunbo 2019). ...
Reference: Africa Out of the Shadows
... Contrary to traditional Pentecostals, these new churches often adhere to prosperity theology, are morally less strict, promote upward social mobility and tend to engage more pro-actively in political life. Neo-Pentecostals draw comparatively more adherents from the middle class than traditional Pentecostals (Allan 2010;Doran and Garrard 2020;Garrard-Burnett 2012). ...
