Mookgo Kgatle's scientific contributions
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Publications (17)
The proliferation of New Prophetic Churches within the broader Pentecostal movement in South Africa has come with the challenge of the abuse of religion and people’s beliefs. These abuses have attracted the attention of the government through the Cultural, Religious, and Linguistic Communities (CRL) commission with calls for the regulation of relig...
The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is
discussed here from disciplinal and decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored to show that Pentecostalism is part of the Protestant tradition but distinct from other streams within this tradition. In addition, the...
Public discourses on the reliability of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in
dealing with the upsurge of virus cases and deaths are developing and ongoing in many
different contexts, as countries around the world are doing their best to build high and
lasting immunity. This article worked within the framework of Pentecostal faith and out...
Exposure of gender-based violence (GBV) has recently received attention from both scholars and the public. However, GBV within Christian discourse, and specifically as it occurs among pastors of the new Prophetic Pentecostal Churches (PPC), is yet to be explored in detail. This article begins to address this research gap by highlighting the difficu...
Traditionally, the ministry of deliverance in African Pentecostalism involves the deliverance from generational curses, deliverance as spiritual warfare against witchcraft and other demonic forces and deliverance for healing. Most scholars have already covered the traditional practices of the ministry of deliverance. In this article what is new is...
Collective grieving during the death and the burial processes of a loved one forms part of
the healing process of many Africans in different contexts. However, with the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the various restrictions imposed during the hard
lockdown, the form and shape of grieving has had to change. Factors such as limitat...
This article explores the prospect of the Ramaphosa presidency and its success by reflecting on the ‘Thuma Mina’ concept. In his State of the Nations Address on 16 February 2018, President Ramaphosa cited the Thuma Mina song of Hugh Masekela to mobilise the resourcefulness of South Africans to volunteer their services to create a better future for...
he novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus that firstly struck in Wuhan, China, but its impact is felt by the whole world. The spread of the virus in South Africa caused President Cyril Ramaphosa to announce a national state of disaster in the country on 15 March 2020. Subsequently, on 23 March 2020, the President announced a total shu...
Scholars with interest in South African Pentecostalism have highlighted the emergence of New Prophetic Churches (later NPCs) in South Africa in the last 5 years. These scholars have indeed characterised NPCs, their theology of new prophetism and pointed to the leading figures in these churches. Majority of these scholarly works have highlighted the...
The death of a loved one and the repatriation of the remains have become the double pain
experienced by many Zimbabweans in South Africa. The double pain is caused by the
cultural demand for burial to be conducted at the home country and the financial demands to do so. While previous studies on mission and theology have addressed the pain of death,...
Pneumatological ecclesiology has caught the interest of many Pentecostal theologians,
especially in the three main sub-traditions of Pentecostalism, that is, classical Pentecostalism (later CP), Pentecostal African Independent Churches (later PAIC) and charismatics. There is however a research gap in studying pneumatological ecclesiology in the new...
The idea for this article was developed in ecumenical discussion regarding the worrisome
developments in some neo-Pentecostal ministries where stories of snake-eating, petroldrinking, false prophecies and so on were being alleged. A burning question during the discussion was: what is it with the hermeneutic of experience that makes it possible for...
Women play an important role in Pentecostal Christianity, especially in an African context.
They are a majority in most local assemblies and contribute a large percentage in terms of the income of such assemblies. Women are active participants in the activities of local assemblies such as prayer, fellowship and catering. The participation of women...
The recent statistics on the prevalence of HIV and AIDS shows that the number of people
living with the virus keep on increasing amidst government’s interventions to deal with the
epidemic. Pentecostal churches have a potential to deal with the problem, given their theology of experience, but are hindered by some myths about the factors associated...
Christianity in post-colonial Africa is highly influenced and shaped by the prosperity message. The popular and materialistic gospel is sweeping across the continent like a gale-force wind, which is irresistible. Previous studies on prosperity gospel have indeed defined the concept as a global phenomenon and in an African context. This study is an...
Singing has always been part of worship in a Pentecostal spiritual service. However, the role of singing in Pentecostal worship as a therapeutic agent has been under-researched. In order to bridge this research gap, this article is an interdisciplinary study of singing and Pentecostal worship. It seeks to demonstrate that the act of singing is a th...
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... The next section discusses the contextual understanding of prophetic witness in South Africa historically and the modes of prophetic witness in a democratic South Africa. It has to be noted that the notion of "prophetic" in this article differs from that of Pentecostalism, which puts an emphasis on the work of the Holy Spirit, especially with regard to divine healing and miracles as it is not the focus of this study (Kgatle 2022). ...
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... The faith in science versus faith in God was entrenched in such a way to mean that faith triumphs over science. However, Kgatle (2022) notes that Pentecostals' insensitive demonization of vaccine has resulted in loss of lives. Their emphasis on faith-healing means that vaccination repudiates faith in God. ...
... In other words, this happens when the spiritual children no longer respect and honor their biological parents because they now have spiritual parents. Dube (2018, 6) states 147 Downloaded by Mookgo Solomon Kgatle on Sat Jan 28 2023 at 07:40:19 AM CST that "the practice conflicts with the roles of biological parents who may see their role and material benefits from their children hijacked by foxy 'spiritual parents.' " An extreme example was evident in the testimonies that came out during the Timothy Omotoso trial in which 20 to 30 girls were forced to leave their homes and families to stay with their "spiritual father" (Kgatle and Frahm-Arp 2022). In this case, spiritual fathering competed with biological fathering instead of complementing it. ...
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... 41 Not only collaboration but also important in "Grieving during a pandemic: A psycho-theological response," by Mookgo Kgatle and Puleng Segalo, but especially their focus on communal grieving in contrast to individualized grieving in order to cope with pandemics such as COVID-19. 42 Given our cognitive-affective biological make-up, and the extreme challenges to our mental health under these relentless and unearthing conditions, I would plea for all sectors of our society (especially scholars) to not only put "more eyes" on the traumatic dimensions and implication of the COVID-19 challenge, but to put "more eyes together" so that it can be managed in a supportive, healing, and directive manner. ...
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... Facebook Live-stream accounted for 77.1 % of the live broadcasting platform, placing at the top of the list among SNS (social networking service). According to Kgatle (2020), Facebook users spend at least 3 times more in watching live-streaming compared to pre-recording video. Facebook Live platform initially adopted for a various purpose, such as streaming events, live chatting with friends but nowadays it is used as social commerce activities which businesses approach customer and promote their products and services. ...
... In terms of South African Pentecostalism, Kgatle (2020) has traced the origin of this movement back to the biblical events recorded in Acts 2:1-4, Acts 10:44 and Acts 19:1-6. He then highlights the three waves witnessed by Pentecostalism as classic Pentecostalism, independent churches and charismatic churches as his build-up towards introducing the fourth wave. ...
... The importance of the deceased body's forming part of the burial rituals is one of the reasons African migrants insist on burying their loved ones in their home countries (Kgatle 2020a). For the same reason, they see the need to repatriate the body of their dead loved one to complete the grieving process during burial. ...
... These are all churches that believe in the fundamental teachings of the Holy Spirit such as salvation, sanctification and the eschatological expectations of the Lord Jesus Christ. Furthermore, these are the churches that have preached the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues (see Kgatle 2020). ...
... This Pentecostal experience as informed by the Spirit baptism makes way for Pentecostals to engage in the hermeneutics of experience that mainly interprets scripture through the influence of the Holy Spirit (see Kgatle & Mofokeng 2019). This kind of interpretation must not be misconstrued as a lack of scientific understanding of scriptures but rather as emphasising the role of the Holy Spirit in hermeneutics. ...
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... Women serve as members of the church council; they are not reserved for extramural ministry. There are calls for more senior positions of women in church leadership, especially in the AFMSA (Kgatle 2019), and these congregations show at the local level that it is possible. The value of respect and belief in the strength of women is expressed by participants. ...
