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Abraham, Shaibu. "Ordinary Indian Pentecostal Christology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1717/.
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This thesis is an investigation into the nature of Christology among ordinary Pentecostals in India. Pentecostalism is growing rapidly among Tribal-groups, Dalits, lower castes and ordinary people. However, the movement has not articulated its theological identity in order to consolidate and further its development. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the ordinary Christology using qualitative research methods such as interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. It is argued that their Christological understandings have been formed and expressed in challenging circumstances and given extraordinary energy through Pentecostal phenomena associated with revivalism. Ordinary Indian Pentecostals understand Jesus as the healer, exorcist, provider and protector in the context of poor health-care, a spirit worldview, extreme poverty, caste-system and religious persecution. Their Christian experience enables them to acknowledge Jesus as the Saviour, Lord and supreme God. These Christological themes are consonant with the larger Pentecostal tradition, theology and indeed the New Testament testimony. The argument critically engages with scholarship in Pentecostalism and the broader Christian tradition to propose a modification of these Christological categories.
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Stephenson, Christopher Adam. "Pentecostal Theology According to the Theologians: An Introduction to the Theological Methods of Pentecostal Systematic Theologians." [Milwaukee, Wis.] : e-Publications@Marquette, 2009. http://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/9.
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Florez, Joseph. "Pentecostal social thought and action, la Misión Iglesia Pentecostal, and military authoritarianism in Chile, 1973-1990." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269362.
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This study contemplates the limitations of traditional conceptions of Latin American Pentecostalism to account for and understand the phenomenon as it developed in the lives of individuals during charged moments like the Chilean dictatorship where meanings and significance – religious and otherwise – were challenged, disrupted, and altered. Its goal is to explore how Pentecostals lived with and against the changing religious expressions and practices that were available to them under authoritarian rule. I argue that Pentecostal religion and practice were infused with new meaning and reimagined through shifting conceptions of community, society, and faith that flowed into and nourished one another. The boundaries of Pentecostal identity and belief were ultimately less rigid and more porous than the traditional historiography suggests, as people sought to find meaning in the face of mounting oppression and insecurity. In doing so, normative definitions of terms like Pentecostal, religion, religiosity, and religious practice as they have been used as categorical frameworks for historical study are also reconsidered. This investigation examines how transformations in religious thought and practice developed and how they found meaning within the everyday experiences of the church’s members as they confronted the harrowing events that engulfed Chile between 1973 and 1990. Key to this work is the concept of ‘lived religion’. The term, often used to collapse the distinction between the personal religious experiences and the prescribed religion of institutions, is used here to approach religion within the realm of la vida cotidiana (everyday life). Based on church documents and oral histories collected from members of the Misión Iglesia Pentecostal (Pentecostal Mission Church – MIP), I use a broad historical framework to map the embodied and discursive space between leaders and lay followers, the points of contact, disjuncture, and resonance across the ideas, experiences, and sensations of their shared lives during the dictatorship.
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Clarke, Marcia. "Pentecostal spirituality as lived experience : an empirical study of women in the British Black Pentecostal Church." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6757/.
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This study’s central thesis is based upon a qualitative research project which captured and analysed the focus group conversations of fifty-two Black British Pentecostal women of African - Caribbean heritage as they discuss their lived experience in terms of Christian spirituality. Practical Theology as a theologically normative discipline provides the lens through which to study this experience. This thesis states that the lived experience of Black British Pentecostal women develops and informs Pentecostal spirituality as part of a conscious and integrated lifestyle facilitates growth in a woman’s relationship with God. Pentecostal spirituality as lived experience is deduced as an aspect of African-Caribbean Christian Consciousness and the 'language of resistance'. Both constructs enabled the participants in a British context to redefine their social experience on their own terms. Further, Black British Pentecostal women’s experience fills a gap in womanist and feminist literature on the subject of women’s spirituality. This thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge by its exploration of the spirituality of Black Caribbean Pentecostal women in Britain through empirical theological research methods. Its focus on Pentecostal spirituality as lived experience moves the discussion beyond the analysis of crisis events and the study of Pentecostal congregational worship.
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Milton, Grace. "Understanding Pentecostal conversion : an empirical study." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5104/.
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This thesis argues that a Pentecostal theology of conversion can be best understood in terms of the biblical concept of shalom. The thesis contributes towards a holistic practical-theological model, which presents conversion in terms of the work of, and response to, God’s shalom in three key dimensions: regeneration, identity and destiny. This study responds to two main motivators: (1) an identified lack of an existing Pentecostal theology of conversion. This is a significant gap in the movement’s theology, particularly in the UK where Pentecostalism continues to buck the trend of church decline; and (2) a recognised stereotype of Pentecostal-charismatic conversion experiences in various disciplines according to an “event” motif, despite the field of conversion studies moving towards a more process-oriented, whole-life approach. The aim of the thesis was to identify and critically analyse the conversion experiences and theology of ordinary believers within their congregational context and in dialogue with ecclesial and academic discourse. Intra-disciplinary methods were used, with Lewis Rambo’s stage-model of religious conversion providing the framework for data collection. Material was gathered and analysed from a case study of an Elim Pentecostal congregation, utilising qualitative methods: participant observation, literature analysis, and life-story interviews.
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Betim, Kelen Ribeiro. "Nomadismo feminino no campo religioso pentecostal." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2012. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2407.
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Previous issue date: 2012-02-27This paper aims to discuss the role of the female pastor in Evangelical Pentecostalism. The role of women as agents of leadership in the religious sphere allows for the discussion of the possibility of the religious universe as a place of significant change in relation to a narrowing of differences between the sexes today. Women s participation as leaders in the Pentecostal church as well as the autonomy of women in church leadership is interpreted as a new option for women beyond the domestic sphere. This paper intends to clarify the existence and occurrence of limitations on these establishments that are inserted into the hierarchy of female power in Pentecostal denominations, and to discuss if these limitations are being derived from the thought perspective of men or women.
O trabalho tem como objetivo discutir o nomadismo feminino no campo religioso Pentecostal, o pastorado feminino no pentecostalismo evangélico. A função das mulheres enquanto agente de liderança na esfera religiosa permite a discussão sobre a possibilidade do universo religioso como um espaço de alterações significativas no que se refere a uma diminuição das diferenças entre os gêneros da atualidade. A participação da mulher como agente de liderança das igrejas pentecostais, bem como à autonomia é interpretada como uma nova opção para as mulheres além do espaço doméstico, entretanto, pretendemos esclarecer a existência e ocorrência de estabelecimento de limitações impostas e inseridas na hierarquia de poder feminino dessas denominações religiosas, verificando se são frutos de uma estrutura hierarquizante pensada não na perspectiva do universo feminino, mas a partir do universo masculino.
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Moreira, Manoel Messias da Silva. "ASPECTOS PSICOLÓGICOS NA CURA RELIGIOSA PENTECOSTAL." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2006. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/952.
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Previous issue date: 2006-10-25This research mainly discusses the psychological aspects in religious Pentecostal cure. It does not discuss if there is religious cure or not, it concentrates, however, on investigating the psychological elements present, or which contribute to the execution of religious Pentecostal cure. It intends to understand in some way the psychological apparatus and its elements which, starting from religious and psychological symbolism, turn themselves into participants in this discussion, through jungian vision. It questions to what point the religious pentecostal cures aren t also psychosomatic cures. To Jung, the symbol is the psychological mechanism which transforms the energy, and which can be considered as the individual expression of the archetype. The symbol is the means that provides the possibility of using the energy flow for some kind of production. Jung called the energy-transforming symbol the image of the libido , which would be the presentations that can give an equivalent expression to the libido, canalizing it to a form different from the original one. The research deals with: health, sickness and sick; religion, psychology and the efficience of both in the cure. It culminates in the field work with four case studies of religious pentecostal cure, where the psychological aspects are studied.
Esta pesquisa aborda, em caráter principal os aspectos psicológicos na cura religiosa pentecostal. Não discute se existe ou não cura religiosa, porém centra-se em investigar os elementos psicológicos presentes, ou que contribuam para a efetivação da cura religiosa pentecostal. Pretende entender de alguma forma o aparato psíquico e seus elementos que a partir da simbologia religiosa e psicológica se constituem participantes desta demanda, através da visão junguiana. Questiona até que ponto as curas religiosas pentecostais não são também curas psicossomáticas. Para Jung o símbolo é o mecanismo psicológico transformador da energia, podendo ser considerado como a expressão individual do arquétipo. O símbolo é o meio que fornece a possibilidade de ser utilizado o fluxo energético para alguma produção. Jung chamou o símbolo que transforma a energia de imagem da libido , que seriam as representações que podem dar à libido uma expressão equivalente, canalizando-a para uma forma diferente da original. A pesquisa trata de saúde, doença; religião, psicologia e a eficácia de ambas na cura. Culmina com o trabalho de campo com quatro estudos de casos de cura religiosa pentecostal onde são investigados os aspectos psicológicos.
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Albano, Fernando. "Dualismo corpo/alma na teologia pentecostal." Faculdades EST, 2010. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=237.
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O objeto desta pesquisa é o dualismo corpo/alma na teologia pentecostal brasileira,
representado por sua maior expressão, a Assembléia de Deus. Assim, a partir da
valorização do ser humano integral, se busca investigar a antropologia teológica
pentecostal, suas tensões e convergências com a perspectiva bíblica. A ênfase
teológica na unidade da constituição humana, que o testemunho bíblico indica,
contrasta com a experiência histórica da cristandade, na qual o corpo sempre teve
um papel secundário, status que, ainda permanece no pentecostalismo atual. Esta
pesquisa apresenta seu conteúdo em três capítulos: capítulo 1 procura-se identificar
a origem, assim como o desenvolvimento do dualismo antropológico ao longo dos
principais períodos da História da Igreja. Com o título Teologia pentecostal e
dualismo antropológico, o segundo capítulo busca apresentar um breve perfil da
teologia pentecostal, considerando principalmente os dados que demonstram sua
concepção de ser humano. No caminho da superação do dualismo antropológico,
terceiro e último capítulo, se busca depois de descrever brevemente sobre a
constituição do ser humano, indicar a partir de alguns dados bíblicos em diálogo com
alguns autores, meios de superação do dualismo antropológico. Por fim, aponta-se
para a teologia pentecostal a adoção da perspectiva antropológica unitária.The object of this research is the dualism between body and soul in the Brazilian Pentecostal theology, represented by its major expression for the Assembly of God Church. Thus, from the appreciation of the whole human being, take it goals to investigate the Pentecostal theological anthropology, its tensions and convergences with the biblical perspective. The theological emphasis on the unity of the human constitution, that the biblical testimony indicates, contrastes with the historical experience of Christianity, in which the body, always played a secondary status, which remains in Pentecostalism today. This research presents its content in three chapters: Chapter 1 seeks to identify the origin, as well as the development of anthropological dualism along the mains periods of church history. Entitled Pentecostal Theology and anthropological dualism, the second chapter seeks to present a brief aspect of Pentecostal theology, especially considering the data showing his conception of human being. On the way to overcome the anthropology dualism, third and last chapter, is quest its, after describing briefly about the constitution of the human being from some biblical data in dialogue with some authors, means of overcoming of the anthropological dualism. Finally, it indicates to a Pentecostal theology the adoption of the anthropological unity perpective.
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Fajardo, Maxwell Pinheiro [UNESP]. "Onde a luta se travar: a expansão das Assembleias de Deus no Brasil urbano (1946-1980)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132222.
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000851874.pdf: 2671150 bytes, checksum: a48431a1a9e0f0ef931fde844b9d2a35 (MD5)A Igreja Assembleia de Deus é o segundo maior grupo religioso do Brasil de acordo com os últimos Censos demográficos. Fundada em Belém do Pará em 1911, sua expansão se deu em consonância com diversas transformações sociais ocorridas no Brasil durante o século XX. Dentre tais transformações, ganham destaque os processos complementares de industrialização e urbanização do país, em evidência de modo especial a partir da segunda metade do século. Foi a partir deste período que as Assembleias de Deus bem como as demais denominações de orientação pentecostal começaram a chamar a atenção no campo religioso brasileiro. Desde a década de 60 estudos acadêmicos apontam como as igrejas pentecostais beneficiaram-se das massas de migrantes que chegavam às metrópoles para fornecerem a mão-de-obra para as indústrias em expansão, concluindo existir uma ligação direta entre a urbanização e o crescimento pentecostal. No entanto, embora inseridas no mesmo contexto, nem todas as denominações tiveram o mesmo ritmo de crescimento. As Assembleias de Deus, por exemplo, hoje contam com seis vezes mais membros que a segunda maior igreja pentecostal, a também centenária Congregação Cristã no Brasil, esta tendo a vantagem de já ter nascido no espaço urbano. Desta forma, partimos da hipótese de que o crescimento assembleiano no mundo urbano deve ser entendido não apenas à luz das transformações sociais externas, mas também a partir da dinâmica interna de organização da Igreja. Um dos fatores preponderantes neste item é a forma sui generis como as Assembleias de Deus conseguiram agregar suas diferentes cisões internas em torno de uma mesma plataforma denominacional sem que isto representasse a desestruturação ou o esfacelamento da Igreja, em um processo de esgarçamento institucional não observável em qualquer outra igreja pentecostal brasileira. Além disso, também...
The Assembly of God Church is Brazil's second largest religious group according to the latest Demographic Census. Founded in Belem in 1911, its expansion took place in line with a number of social changes in Brazil during the twentieth century. Among such changes, are highlighted the complementary processes of industrialization and urbanization of the country, evident especially from the second half of the century. It was from this period that the Assemblies of God and other Pentecostal denominations of orientation began to draw attention in the Brazilian religious field. Since 1960 academic studies point to the Pentecostal churches benefited the masses of migrants who came to the cities to provide the manpower for expanding industries, concluding there is a direct link between urbanization and the Pentecostal growth. However, although inserted in the same context, not all denominations have the same growth rate. The Assemblies of God, for example, now have six times more members than the second largest Pentecostal church, also centenary Christian Congregation of Brazil, is having the advantage to have been born around the city. Thus, we start from the assumption that the church member growth in the urban world must be understood not only in the light of external social, but also from the internal dynamics of the Church organization. One of the preponderant factors in this item is a sui generis way Assemblies of God were able to combine their different internal divisions around the same denominational platform without it represented the disintegration or the disintegration of the Church in an institutional fraying process unobservable in any other Brazilian Pentecostal church. Moreover, we also took into account their own cultural codes of the name, born in the overlapping of the Swedish experience of its early leaders, the migratory experience of its members and their own responses developed...
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Fajardo, Maxwell Pinheiro. ""Onde a luta se travar" : a expansão das Assembleias de Deus no Brasil urbano (1946-1980) /." Assis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132222.
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Resumo: A Igreja Assembleia de Deus é o segundo maior grupo religioso do Brasil de acordo com os últimos Censos demográficos. Fundada em Belém do Pará em 1911, sua expansão se deu em consonância com diversas transformações sociais ocorridas no Brasil durante o século XX. Dentre tais transformações, ganham destaque os processos complementares de industrialização e urbanização do país, em evidência de modo especial a partir da segunda metade do século. Foi a partir deste período que as Assembleias de Deus bem como as demais denominações de orientação pentecostal começaram a chamar a atenção no campo religioso brasileiro. Desde a década de 60 estudos acadêmicos apontam como as igrejas pentecostais beneficiaram-se das massas de migrantes que chegavam às metrópoles para fornecerem a mão-de-obra para as indústrias em expansão, concluindo existir uma ligação direta entre a urbanização e o crescimento pentecostal. No entanto, embora inseridas no mesmo contexto, nem todas as denominações tiveram o mesmo ritmo de crescimento. As Assembleias de Deus, por exemplo, hoje contam com seis vezes mais membros que a segunda maior igreja pentecostal, a também centenária Congregação Cristã no Brasil, esta tendo a "vantagem" de já ter nascido no espaço urbano. Desta forma, partimos da hipótese de que o crescimento assembleiano no mundo urbano deve ser entendido não apenas à luz das transformações sociais externas, mas também a partir da dinâmica interna de organização da Igreja. Um dos fatores preponderantes neste item é a forma sui generis como as Assembleias de Deus conseguiram agregar suas diferentes cisões internas em torno de uma mesma plataforma denominacional sem que isto representasse a desestruturação ou o esfacelamento da Igreja, em um processo de esgarçamento institucional não observável em qualquer outra igreja pentecostal brasileira. Além disso, também...
Abstract: The Assembly of God Church is Brazil's second largest religious group according to the latest Demographic Census. Founded in Belem in 1911, its expansion took place in line with a number of social changes in Brazil during the twentieth century. Among such changes, are highlighted the complementary processes of industrialization and urbanization of the country, evident especially from the second half of the century. It was from this period that the Assemblies of God and other Pentecostal denominations of orientation began to draw attention in the Brazilian religious field. Since 1960 academic studies point to the Pentecostal churches benefited the masses of migrants who came to the cities to provide the manpower for expanding industries, concluding there is a direct link between urbanization and the Pentecostal growth. However, although inserted in the same context, not all denominations have the same growth rate. The Assemblies of God, for example, now have six times more members than the second largest Pentecostal church, also centenary Christian Congregation of Brazil, is having the "advantage" to have been born around the city. Thus, we start from the assumption that the church member growth in the urban world must be understood not only in the light of external social, but also from the internal dynamics of the Church organization. One of the preponderant factors in this item is a sui generis way Assemblies of God were able to combine their different internal divisions around the same denominational platform without it represented the disintegration or the disintegration of the Church in an institutional fraying process unobservable in any other Brazilian Pentecostal church. Moreover, we also took into account their own cultural codes of the name, born in the overlapping of the Swedish experience of its early leaders, the migratory experience of its members and their own responses developed...
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Beckford, Robert. "Towards a dread Pentecostal theology : the context of a viable political theology within black Pentecostal Churches in Britain." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600517.
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This study develops a political theology for Black Pentecostal Churches in Britain. The Black Church as a part of Black Atlantic cultural and political traditions is influenced by a plethora of spiritual, political and social forces. These include histories of oppression and resistance. By taking seriously the traditions of resistance, the Black Church is provided with resources for developing a holistic theology that engages explicitly with the social and political world, that is, what I have called a liberating theological praxis. Such a political theology takes seriously the cultural, theological and political issues raised in African Caribbean resistance. One African Caribbean resistance tradition is the concept of dread in Rastafari. Traditions of resistance are exposed from within Black Pentecostalism by 'imposing' a reformed concept of dread upon aspects of Black Pentecostalism. This conjunction produces a theological paradigm called dread Pen tecostalism. Dread Pentecostalism as a theological system nurtures the theological sensibilities found within liberating theological praxis, that is, emancipation fulfilment. One product of dread Pentecostalism is its hermeneutical focus known as dread hermeneutics. Dreadhermeneutics is the basis for a political re-reading of the Bible from a Black Pentecostal context. This political focus is demonstrated in a reevaluation of Christology in order to construct a dread Christ.
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Solís, Díaz Daniela. "Pentecostalismo chileno e imaginarios anticomunistas: el caso de la Iglesia Metodista Pentecostal e Iglesia Evangélica Pentecostal, 1964-1974." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/168023.
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Ricci, Maurício [UNESP]. "Glossolalia e organização do sistema simbólico pentecostal." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99015.
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O tema desta Dissertação é a glossolalia. O dom de línguas - como a glossolalia é conhecida entre os pentecostais - é um modo de orar em que o fiel, em êxtase, se expressa através de uma linguagem aparentemente ininteligível, acompanhada por expressões corporais que produzem sentimentos de alegria, transbordamento, choro, riso, saltos e gestos. Esse dom é de importância central na Teologia Pentecostal por ser considerado, pelos crentes, a irrefutável evidência do batismo no Espírito Santo. Trata-se de um dom institucional e ritualístico, que se apresenta durante culto e se desenvolve na instituição - distintamente dos dons que ocorrem em processos relativamente autônomos, como é o caso das benzedeiras e curandeiros. Analiso o processo de aquisição e desenvolvimento da glossolalia dialogando com a Antropologia do Imaginário. Da compreensão de um mundo pautado por uma imponderabilidade, que motiva os fiéis pentecostais à uma busca de sentido para suas vidas em diversas agências religiosas, no modelo biomédico, entre outros, até as relações que o fiel desenvolve com um cosmo intencional, lugar mítico no qual o crente concebe a si mesmo como um eleito, alguém que se diferencia dos demais por possuir um dom e uma missão específica no mundo. Como parte da categoria dos eleitos, eles integram o mundo dos iniciados.
The theme of this Dissertation is the glossolalia. The gift of tongues - how the glossolalia is know among the pentecostals - is a kind of pray that the belivers, in ecstasy, express themselves by means of an aparent unintelligible language, followed by body expressions of the sentiments of happiness, overflow, weeping, laughing, jumps and gesticulation. This gift is very important in the Pentecostal Theology because it is considerated, by the believers, the irrefutable evidence of the Holy Spirit baptism. It s a ritualistic and institucional gift, that occurs durind the cult and develop itself in the institucion - it s a distinctive form of gifts that occurs in relatives self-suficients process, like the faith-realers and the witch-doctors. I analyse the process of aquisicion and development of glossolalia dialoging with the Anthropology of Imaginary. That extend itself in a comprehension of an imponderable world, this world motivates a search for purpose in the diverses religious agencies, in the biomedic model, and others until the relations that the belivers develop with an intencional cosmos, mythic place on which the beliver conceives himself as a chosen one, somebody who is diferent from the others for having a gift and a specific mission in the world, and as part of the category of the chosen ones, he integrates the initiated s world.
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Yeung, Chun-kwong, and 揚振光. "Development of Wing Kwong Pentecostal Holiness Church." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985579.
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Byrd, Charles Hannon. "Pentecostal aspects of early sixteenth century Anabaptism." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8258/.
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Early sixteenth century radical Anabaptism emanated in Switzerland during Huldrych Zwingli's protest against the Roman Catholic Church. Much like Martin Luther, Zwingli founded his reform effort on the Bible being the final arbiter of the faith, sola scriptura, and the sufficiency of the shed blood of Christ plus nothing for eternal salvation, sola fide. Based on these principles both adopted the doctrine of the Priesthood of the Believer which recognized every believer's Spirit empowered ability to read and interpret the Bible for themselves. These initial theological tenets resulted in the literal reading of the Bible and a very pragmatic Christian praxis including a Pauline pneumatology that recognized the efficacy of the manifestation of the charismata. Radical adherents of Zwingli rejected infant baptism as being totally unbiblical and insisted upon the rebaptism of adults but only on a personal confession of faith, thus the term Anabaptist. Notwithstanding any knowledge of the Anabaptist movement, early twentieth century Pentecostalism had a similar response to a literal reading of Paul with the same results, the manifestation of the charismata. This thesis identifies the similarities between Anabaptism and Pentecostalism notwithstanding the lack of knowledge of the early Anabaptist movement on the part of early Pentecostals.
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Bremner, Sophie. "Transforming futures? : being Pentecostal in Kampala, Uganda." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/42348/.
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Pentecostal Christianity has gained many followers in the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite a corpus of anthropological scholarship on the impact of following Pentecostalism on identities and social change, less has been written from the perspective of the believer, and little from within the field of development studies. In this thesis, which is based on 14months of research in Kampala, Uganda, I explore how followers of this religion appropriate a discourse of prosperity and blessings, and how they utilise certain religious practices and relationships that are forged from the Pentecostal community in their efforts to mediate their futures and ‘move on up’ from a state of poverty. In particular, I discuss whether these practices and relationships can be seen as engendering transformative agency for these individuals. In doing so, I explore three themes that were prevalent in my data analysis: an everyday non-ecstatic speech act which is called ‘positive confessions’, ways of understanding poverty and dealing with situations of injustice, and patronage relationships between more wealthy and poorer members of the Pentecostal community. I suggest that despite readily apparent displays of agency, in effect these religious practices and relationships do little to enable positive transformations in the lives of these believers, and instead, might actually uphold existing issues of disenfranchisement, through an emphasis on the individual as a force for change, a reorientation in ideas of time, and a prohibition of doubt and questioning. In addition, a more limited exploration of a group of non-Pentecostals sheds light on the potential for Pentecostal Christianity to be influential on the wider religious milieu than may have originally be thought, and hints at the need for a re-fashioning of our research methods when understanding the lives of those who are ‘Pentecostal’, in Uganda at least.
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Ricci, Maurício. "Glossolalia e organização do sistema simbólico pentecostal /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99015.
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Orientador: Elda Rizzo de Oliveira.Banca: Renata Medeiros Paoliello.
Banca: Denis Domeneghetti Badia.
Resumo: O tema desta Dissertação é a glossolalia. O dom de línguas - como a glossolalia é conhecida entre os pentecostais - é um modo de orar em que o fiel, em êxtase, se expressa através de uma linguagem aparentemente ininteligível, acompanhada por expressões corporais que produzem sentimentos de alegria, transbordamento, choro, riso, saltos e gestos. Esse dom é de importância central na Teologia Pentecostal por ser considerado, pelos crentes, a irrefutável evidência do batismo no Espírito Santo. Trata-se de um dom institucional e ritualístico, que se apresenta durante culto e se desenvolve na instituição - distintamente dos dons que ocorrem em processos relativamente autônomos, como é o caso das benzedeiras e curandeiros. Analiso o processo de aquisição e desenvolvimento da glossolalia dialogando com a Antropologia do Imaginário. Da compreensão de um mundo pautado por uma imponderabilidade, que motiva os fiéis pentecostais à uma busca de sentido para suas vidas em diversas agências religiosas, no modelo biomédico, entre outros, até as relações que o fiel desenvolve com um cosmo intencional, lugar mítico no qual o crente concebe a si mesmo como um eleito, alguém que se diferencia dos demais por possuir um dom e uma missão específica no mundo. Como parte da categoria dos eleitos, eles integram o mundo dos iniciados.
Abstract: The theme of this Dissertation is the glossolalia. The gift of tongues - how the glossolalia is know among the pentecostals - is a kind of pray that the belivers, in ecstasy, express themselves by means of an aparent unintelligible language, followed by body expressions of the sentiments of happiness, overflow, weeping, laughing, jumps and gesticulation. This gift is very important in the Pentecostal Theology because it is considerated, by the believers, the irrefutable evidence of the Holy Spirit baptism. Its a ritualistic and institucional gift, that occurs durind the cult and develop itself in the institucion - its a distinctive form of gifts that occurs in relatives self-suficients process, like the faith-realers and the witch-doctors. I analyse the process of aquisicion and development of glossolalia dialoging with the Anthropology of Imaginary. That extend itself in a comprehension of an imponderable world, this world motivates a search for purpose in the diverses religious agencies, in the biomedic model, and others until the relations that the belivers develop with an intencional cosmos, mythic place on which the beliver conceives himself as a chosen one, somebody who is diferent from the others for having a gift and a specific mission in the world, and as part of the category of the chosen ones, he integrates the initiateds world.
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Lirio, Luciano de Carvalho. "Adolescer em um contexto fundamentalista pentecostal gaúcho." Faculdades EST, 2013. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=462.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorO presente trabalho foi realizado com o apoio do CAPES Brasil e propõe uma reflexão sobre a adolescência vivida num contexto fundamentalista pentecostal gaúcho, adotando como parâmetro a Igreja Batista Conservadora, tendo como objetivo específico conceituar o que é ser adolescente nessas igrejas que surgem num cenário religioso brasileiro neopentecostal, pós-moderno e pluralista, mas que evocam um pertencimento ao movimento pentecostal clássico iniciado no país há um século. As múltiplas adolescências vividas nos espaços religiosos fundamentalistas são analisadas no primeiro capítulo, sendo mais específico numa denominação nascida no Rio Grande do Sul. Observando que manifestações culturais se produzem nesse cenário, são utilizadas como referencial teórico-metodológico contribuições da Psicologia, da Sociologia, das Ciências Biológicas e sua articulação com a Teologia e a Pedagogia sob perspectiva pós-moderna. O segundo capítulo propõe uma reflexão sobre o fundamentalismo e a sua influência nos adolescentes pentecostais gaúchos, tendo como objetivo específico analisar como os adolescentes constroem e compartilham formas particulares de entender o mundo globalizado, compreendem a realidade que se desenha à sua volta e expressam a fé em um contexto fundamentalista gaúcho. No terceiro capítulo o fundamentalismo é analisado no recorte cristão protestante pentecostal, reconhecendo que existem outras matizes fundamentalistas e delimitando o perímetro da pesquisa. Foi realizada pesquisa social a fim de aferir a realidade vivenciada pelos adolescentes em um contexto fundamentalista pentecostal gaúcho.
This research was carried out with the support of CAPES Brasil and proposes a reflection on the adolescence experienced in a Gaúcho Pentecostal fundamentalist context , adopting as parameter the Igreja Batista Conservadora [The Conservative Baptist Church], having as a specific goal to conceptualize what it means to be adolescent in these churches which arise in a neo-Pentecostal, postmodern and pluralist religious Brazilian scenario, but which evoke a belonging to the classical Pentecostal movement begun in the country a century ago. In the first chapter I propose the analysis of the adolescence experienced in fundamentalist religious spaces, and being more specific, in a denomination which was born in Rio Grande do Sul. Observing which cultural manifestations are produced in this scenario, I use as theoretical-methodological references the contributions from Psychology, Sociology, Biological Sciences and their articulation with Theology and Pedagogy in the postmodern perspective. The second chapter proposes a reflection on fundamentalism and its influence on Gaúcho Pentecostal adolescents, having as a specific goal to analyze how the adolescents construct and share particular ways of understanding the globalized world, understand the reality which is drawn out around them and express the faith in a fundamentalist Gaúcho context. In the third chapter the fundamentalism is analyzed in a Christian Protestant Pentecostal cutout, recognizing that other fundamentalist matrices exist and thus delimiting the perimeter of the research. A social research was carried out so as to verify the reality experienced by the adolescents in a Gaúcho Pentecostal fundamentalist context.
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Yeung, Chun-kwong. "Development of Wing Kwong Pentecostal Holiness Church." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25947904.
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Potgieter, Andre. "The material dimension of religion: a case study of selected Neo-Pentecostal churches in Woodstock, Cape Town." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4479.
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Magister Artium - MAThe aim of the study was to establish why the sudden emergence of numerous storefront Neo-Pentecostal churches, in the suburb of Woodstock, Cape Town, were found to be attracting large numbers of members while mainstream churches were closing down or struggling to survive. Over and above the fact that the Neo- Pentecostal churches are flourishing, the sheer number of them, was a further cause for investigation into this phenomenon. The majority of these congregations proved to have sub-Saharan ties (Nigerian in particular) and attracted membership largely of a similar background. This study looks at this phenomenon from a thorough understanding of the history of liturgy and particularly Pentecostal customs and attempts to place these churches in their social and historical context. The main thrust of this thesis, however, is an analysis of the distinctive and very prominent material features of these churches and their worship services which not only sets them apart from other Pentecostal and mainstream churches, but may offer an explanation of their popularity in this community. This study is undertaken through the close analysis of the worship services of seven Neo-Pentecostal churches in Woodstock and application of Ninian Smart's dimensions of religious practice, with specific reference to what he calls the Material Dimension. At least one worship service in each congregation was recorded on video and great sensitivity was exercised here in the physical recordings and in obtaining the written consent of the leaders of these respective congregations to use the data obtained.
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Busenitz, Nathan Albert. "Was Polycarp a pentecostal? an examination of the patristic evidence regarding tongue-speaking with subsequent comparison to modern pentecostal practice /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p059-0037.
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Busenitz, Nathan Albert. "Was Polycarp a pentecostal? an examination of the patristic evidence regarding tongue-speaking with subsequent comparison to modern pentecostal practice /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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Chaves, Alexandre da Silva. "Presença pentecostal numa sociedade de transição rural-urbana: a Igreja Pentecostal Chegada de Cristo e Curas Divinas estudo de caso." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2660.
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This paper seeks to understand the Pentecostal religion in its historical-cultural perspective, considering both aspects to the transition of rural-urban municipality of Franco da Rocha. There is the possibility of studying the arrival of Christ Pentecostal Church and the causes of integration and accommodation in this rural region. On can observe that there is a reverse movement carried out over most of the Brazilian Evangelical churches, which would integrate the layers of urban society, however, research studies indicate that this church is trying in a rural context of transition. This paper presents Pentecostalism in Brazilian culture in its diverse forms of expression, based on case study presented in the context of the rural municipality of Franco da Rocha, it is observed how the culture in its broader aspect is politics, economics or history, a Pentecostal religiosity influences the everyday life that is transformed by this community. The survey notes a kind of evangelical Pentecostal which is beyond the routine aspect presented in the arena of urban religions. It is observed that the accommodation of the Pentecostal religion in an atmosphere of tradition and a rural context, culture configures a different kind of Pentecost in its spectrum, a type of Pentecostalism done mixing, which differs from the types of "Pentecostalism" in existing urban centers.
Este trabalho busca compreender a religiosidade pentecostal em sua perspectiva históricocultural privilegiando a temática da transição rural-urbana, por onde se busca perceber esses aspectos, cujos reflexos se tornam evidentes e podem ser experimentados na religião pentecostal do município de Franco da Rocha. A integração às camadas urbanas da sociedade é característica comum ao movimento pentecostal brasileiro, contudo, percebe-se nesse pentecostalismo e nas causas de sua integração e acomodação nesta região rural o inverso do que realizam os pentecostais das mais diferentes matrizes da igreja evangélica brasileira; o movimento de fuga das massas camponesas e agrárias em grandes capitais e cidades do país leva consigo, normalmente, uma religião e o interesse do religioso nas camadas urbanas. O trabalho apresenta o pentecostalismo de curas divinas na cultura brasileira em sua forma mais diversificada de expressão; com base no estudo de caso apresentado nesse contexto rural do município de Franco da Rocha, observa-se o quanto a cultura, em seu aspecto mais amplo, influencia uma religiosidade pentecostal que é transformada pelo cotidiano dessa comunidade ao mesmo tempo em que a transforma. A pesquisa observa um tipo de evangélico pentecostal que foge ao aspecto apresentado na arena das religiões urbanas. Observa-se que na acomodação da religião pentecostal num ambiente de tradição e num contexto rural, a cultura o configura num tipo de pentecostal diferente em seu espectro, um tipo de pentecostalismo feito de mixagem, um hibrido, que difere dos tipos de pentecostalismos existentes nos centros urbanos.
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Engel, Barkley J. "Socialization for conformity in a Pentecostal boarding school." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0015/MQ48194.pdf.
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Baker, Heidi G. "Pentecostal experience: towards a reconstructive theology of glossolalia." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364371.
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Lord, Andrew Michael. "Network church : a Pentecostal ecclesiology shaped by mission." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1246/.
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This thesis develops a pentecostal ecclesiology using the structure of networks that leads to a fresh approach to contextualisation. It addresses the neglect in pentecostal scholarship of church structures beyond the congregation and of critical approaches to contextualisation. The pentecostal systematic methodology of Amos Yong is utilized, based on the synthesis of discerned experience (Spirit), biblical studies (Word) and the traditions of systematic and mission theology (Community). A trinitarian understanding of networks is developed and linked with an approach to the catholicity of the church that has a common essence and mission movement. This is shaped by the missionary nature of pentecostalism and rooted in an understanding of a church marked by Spirit baptism. The character of networks is defined in terms of partnership, a term with a rich mission understanding and seen also in the pentecostal tradition. A three-fold approach to contextualisation arises from the overlap between networks within and outside the church which is based on hospitality. Significantly, this thesis is the first in pentecostal ecclesiology to utilise a pentecostal methodology, to focus on structural and contextual issues and to develop a trinitarian network ecclesiology. It provides a fresh approach to catholicity, Spirit baptism, partnership and contextualisation.
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Swoboda, Aaron Jason. "Tongues and trees : towards a green Pentecostal pneumatology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3003/.
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This thesis develops a Pentecostal ecotheology by utilizing key pneumatological themes that emerge from the Pentecostal tradition. It examines and utilizes the salient Pentecostal and Charismatic voices that have stimulated ecotheology in the Pentecostal tradition and situates them within the broader context of Christian ecumenical ecotheologies (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Ecofeminist). These Pentecostal expressions are placed in dialogue with the particular ecological pneumatologies of Denis Edwards (Roman Catholic), Mark Wallace (Protestant), and Sallie McFague (Ecofeminist). The thesis advances a novel approach to Pentecostal ecotheology through a pneumatology of the Spirit baptized creation, the charismatic creational community, the holistic ecological Spirit, and the eschatological Spirit of ecological mission. Significantly, this thesis is the first substantive contribution to a Pentecostal pneumatological theology of creation with a particular focus on the Pentecostal community and its significance for the broader ecumenical community. Furthermore, it offers a fresh theological approach to imagining and sustaining earth-friendly practice in the twenty-first century Pentecostal church.
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Hardwick, Kristy L. "Apostolic Pentecostal Clergy Beliefs Regarding Mental Health Disorders." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367943471.
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McQueen, Larry R. "Toward a Pentecostal eschatology : discerning the way forward." Thesis, Bangor University, 2011. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/toward-a-pentecostal-eschatology(bd411920-02d3-4b50-bcd7-ab09087b0dbd).html.
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Davis, Dawn E. "Strong Black Women, Depression, and the Pentecostal Church." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6550.
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Depression is a global health concern and among the top two causes of disability
and disease. African-Americans often seek help from the Black church, but
Pentecostal churches may fail to provide effective support due to doctrinal beliefs.
African-American women with depression struggle due to psychosocial implications
of the diagnosis. This research study used social constructionism and the
biopsychosocial model of health to explore the lived experiences of African-
American women suffering from self-reported depression while attending
Pentecostal churches in the Northeast United States. Fourteen women, ages
20 to 76, participated in this qualitative, phenomenological study. Data obtained
from the semistructured, face-to-face interviewswas analyzed with Moustakas'
modified Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method. Findings included the following main
themes: the Pentecostal church was ineffective in dealing with depression,
participants drew comfort from personal faith in God, participants emoted
through their behavior, most felt they had to wear a mask, traditional supports
were used to deal with depression, strength was expected of them, they were
blamed by the church for their depression, traumatic experiences were related
to depression, and psychological harm was suffered because of Pentecostal
church membership. Social change implications included the personal
liberation of research participants who shared their experiences. Other
implications include the potential for clergy to adopt more supportive practices
for their members based on these findings and for mental health professionals to
develop treatment options that are more culturally attuned and sensitive.
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Dalton, Harold. "Things most surely believed among us theological unity in the charismatic movement for the purpose of world evangelization as exemplified by members of the steering committee of the North American Renewal Services Committee /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Allen, David. "Signs and wonders : the origins, growth, development and significance of Assemblies of God in Great Britain and Ireland 1900-1980." Thesis, University of London, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248705.
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Reichard, Joshua David. "Pentecost, process, and power : a critical comparison of Concursus in Operational Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology and Philosophical Process-Relational Theology." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9850_1318250797.
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This doctoral thesis comprises a critical comparison of the theme of concursus, the way in which God and humanity interact, in the Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational traditions. The comparison is literature-basedsimilarities and differences in the theological literature of each tradition are compared in order to determine the extent of compatibilities and incompatibilities. The hypothesis is that similarities in the literature sufficiently leverage differences. The first chapter includes a statement of the problem, namely that the global expansion of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements necessitates interaction with more academically and philosophically oriented theological traditions such as Process- Relational theology. The second chapter comprises an historical survey of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements, including key dogmas and practices. Chapter three comprises an historical survey of Process-Relational theology, including its philosophical, metaphysical, and scientific orientations. Seminal Process- Relational theists such as Whitehead, Hartshorne, and Cobb are surveyed. Chapter four consists of a broad historical survey of the theological theme of concursus, including the notions of causation, free will, and determinism in both philosophy and theology. Further, the fourth chapter includes a broad historical survey of pneumatology, which is framed as the basis for a comparison of concursus. Chapters five and six comprise surveys of concursus in the Pentecostal- Charismatic and Process-Relational traditions respectively. Chapter seven entails an extensive analysis of differences and synthesis of similarities between the Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational notions of concursus. Four differences and four similarities are identified. Differences and similarities are ranked and compared for compatibility...
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O’Neil, Sean S. "Thinking in the Spirit: The Emergence of Latin American Pentecostal Scholars and Their Theology of Social Concern." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1070640885.
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Petersen, Douglas Peter. "A Pentecostal theology of social concern in Central America." Thesis, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.483625.
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Sharkey, Stanley A. "Designing a development program for Western Pentecostal Bible College." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
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Ireland, V. E. J. D. C. "Religion and education : a study of a Pentecostal practice." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233404.
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Ferreira, Ismael de Vasconcelos. "Ser crente: experiência e linguagem religiosa da vida pentecostal." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2017. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/6139.
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Esta tese propõe conhecer e discutir os modos de construção da realidade religiosa da vida pentecostal definida pela experiência religiosa concernente ao pentecostalismo, tendo como referencial teórico uma definição de religião mais essencial que suscite o homo religiosus inerente ao homem. Esta proposição é assumida como mais adequada a uma pesquisa em Ciência da Religião, tendo em vista concentrar-se no objeto religioso e suas intenções inerentes às práticas subjacentes da cultura pentecostal. A abordagem se deu qualitativamente, por meio de pesquisa de campo realizada na cidade de Juiz de Fora-MG no período de outubro de 2014 a novembro de 2015. Foram entrevistados fiéis e egressos, num total de trinta e quatro, que eram oriundos de instituições nominalmente pentecostais. A coleta de informações foi feita utilizando-se o método da entrevista compreensiva que permite maior aproximação ao entrevistado e promove melhores condições de se estabelecerem perspectivas teóricas e de síntese sobre o objeto estudado. Esta discussão permitiu um conhecimento profundo e constitutivo desta religiosidade, resultado necessário à análise da religião enquanto promovedora de realidades significativas e últimas que tendem a questionar outras perspectivas concorrentes. Deste modo, a religião é considerada neste trabalho não de forma nominal, mas qualitativa, tendo no pentecostalismo sua representação formal e na vida pentecostal seu aspecto dinâmico e substancial. Esta abordagem permitiu tanto a visualização da religião pentecostal e a coleta dos registros que indicam seus constituintes propriamente religiosos, apresentando sua linguagem religiosa, quanto, a partir da consideração a esta prerrogativa humana do ser religioso, a discussão e constatação do poder de definição e normatização da religião, produzindo o ser crente.
This thesis proposes to know and discuss the modes of construction of the religious reality of the Pentecostal life defined by the religious experience concerning Pentecostalism, having as theoretical reference a more essential definition of religion which arouses homo religiosus inherent to man. This proposition is assumed to be best suited to research in the Science of Religion in order to focus on the religious object and its intentions concerning the underlying practices of Pentecostal culture. The approach was qualitative, through a field survey conducted in the city of Juiz de Fora-MG from October 2014 to November 2015. A total of thirty-four believers and former believers from nominally Pentecostal institutions were interviewed. The data collection was done using a comprehensive interview method, which allows a better approximation to the interviewee and promotes better conditions to establish theoretical perspectives and synthesis about the analyzed object. This discussion allowed a deep and constitutive knowledge of this religiosity, a necessary result for the analysis of religion as a promoter of significant and last realities that tend to question other competing perspectives. Thus, religion is considered in this work not nominally but qualitatively, having in Pentecostalism its formal representation and in Pentecostal life its dynamic and substantial aspect. This approach allowed both the visualization of the Pentecostal religion and the collection of records that indicate its properly religious constituents, presenting its religious language, and, from the consideration of this human prerogative of the religious being, the discussion and verification of the power of definition and normalization of religion, producing the believing person.
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Alencar, Glauber Rodrigues de. "Aspectos da cultura pentecostal brasileira: origem, influências e desenvolvimento." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2015. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2820.
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The purpose of this research is to show the transformation process through which pentecostalism has undergone. Our main argument is that brazilian pentecostalism can be understood in light of the elements of brazilian culture, whith which it maintains a relation of rejection and assimilation or acculturation. The approach here considers the basic elements of brazilian culture in order to understand how they are expressed in pentecostalism. We will endeavor to identify some factors that can back our argument.
Essa dissertação tem como objetivo apresentar uma leitura do processo que transformações pelas quais o pentecostalismo tem passado. Nosso argumento é que o pentecostalismo brasileiro pode ser lido a partir dos elementos da cultural brasileira, com a qual mantém uma relação de rejeição e assimilação ou aculturação. Trata-se, pois, de considerar os elementos básicos da cultura brasileira para compreendermos algumas de suas expressões no pentecostalismo. Buscaremos identificar alguns fatores que confirmem nosso argumento.
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Perry, David. "Pentecostal spirit baptism: An analysis of meaning and function." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2014. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/f900485066de8dbe1f1c915c978695cedaf9b4992633172b6c89e9f32ad98c30/2114480/201408_David_Perry.pdf.
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This thesis engages with the Pentecostal experience of Spirit baptism and seeks to contribute to the discussion through the application of a new methodology. The premise is that the experience itself is meaningful and important to the Pentecostal community, but the meaning inherent in the experience has not always been adequately understood. To address this, this thesis utilizes the functions of meaning, a set of categories proposed by Bernard Lonergan, as a framework to explicate the Pentecostal experience in terms of its cognitive, effective, constitutive and communicative dimensions. Concerning the cognitive function, I argue that the key assertion Pentecostals make about their experience of Spirit baptism is that it is an experience of the Holy Spirit. This assertion is then demonstrated as reasonable through phenomenological analysis, and explained in theological and Trinitarian terms as the procession of love, the Holy Spirit, poured into our hearts from the Father and the Son. Concerning the effective function of meaning, I suggest that this divine love poured into our hearts through Spirit baptism can function as a motivating force for evangelism and missions. Concerning the constitutive function, I recognize that Spirit baptism constituted the Pentecostal community for many years, but the value of the experience as an integrator within the contemporary Pentecostal context has yet to be determined. More work is needed in this area. Finally, concerning the communicative function, I propose that the relationship between Spirit baptism and speaking in tongues may be understood theologically as the communication of elemental meaning. The doctrine of Spirit baptism, however, needs to be revised in order to capture the essence and richness of the experience itself. The end result of this thesis, then, is a suggested restatement of the Pentecostal doctrine of Spirit baptism that incorporates the cognitive, effective, constitutive and communicative meanings discussed throughout.
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Mendonça, Emilio Zambon de. "IGREJA PENTECOSTAL DEUS É AMOR : ORIGENS, CARACTERÍSTICAS E EXPANSÃO." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2009. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/495.
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Previous issue date: 2009-03-05We endeavored to demonstrate that the Pentecostal Church God is Love PCGL has been a church in expansion for the last five decades. Our work indicates that PCGL chose radio and its own newspaper and magazines to divulge its activities. The study demonstrates that PCGL alienates itself from politics, does not give inte views to other radios, forbids the use of TV sets in homes and neither answers reporters nor scholars. On the one hand, based on our 11 years of experience in the PCGL, including five years as deacon, we reveal details that will provide subsidies to academic studies in general of nowadays Pentecostal phenomenon. On the other hand, by covering some areas not yet analyzed by the academy, we complement information that does not appear in David Martins de Miranda s autobiography, him being the founder of PCGL. Finally, we tried to identify the doctrines that characterize PCGL as well as its administrative processes. These denote a trend towards the professionalization of part of the Board of Directors in relation to the succession process. In terms of succession, we also analyzed the institution s reproduction , a process that until now is under the charisma of its founder who administers his church with all the characteristics of a family business, within the gradient sect/church. Our conclusions demonstrate that the strategies which fostered the expansion of PCGL are based on its radios stations, its big rallies, its proselytism and its fund raising efforts that together feed and support the growth of the Pentecostal Church God is Love .(AU)
Procuramos demonstrar que a Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor - IPDA é uma Igreja, em expansão nas últimas cinco décadas. Nossa Dissertação de Mestrado indica que a IPDA elegeu a mídia radiofônica, seu jornal e suas próprias revistas para divulgar suas atividades. O estudo demonstra que a IPDA é alheia à política, não dá entrevistas às demais rádios, proíbe o uso da televisão e não atende jornalistas nem pesquisadores. Com base em nossa experiência de 11 anos de atuação na Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor , incluindo cinco anos como diácono, resgatamos detalhes que fornecerão subsídios aos meios acadêmicos e aos pesquisadores dos fenômenos pentecostais da atualidade. Ao cobrir certo espaço ainda não pesquisado pela academia, complementamos, por outro lado, dados que não constam da autobiografia de David Martins de Miranda, fundador da IPDA. Por fim, procuramos identificar características doutrinárias da IPDA e dos seus processos administrativos, que denotam certa tendência de profissionalização de parte da equipe da diretoria no processo sucessório. Abordamos, ainda, a questão da reprodução da instituição, mantida até aqui debaixo do carisma de seu fundador que vem administrando sua Igreja com todas as características de uma empresa familiar, dentro de um gradiente seita/igreja. Nossas conclusões demonstram as estratégias que permitiram a expansão da IPDA alicerçada nas suas rádios, nas suas grandes concentrações, no seu apelo proselitista e na arrecadação de recursos, fatores que alimentam e suportam o crescimento da Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor .(AU)
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Pereira, Walter Nei. "Temas bíblicos na escola dominical da Igreja Assembleia de Deus (2000-2009): avaliação teológica e perspectivas." Faculdades EST, 2012. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=363.
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Esta dissertação apresenta uma avaliação teológ ica e perspectivas para a herm enêutica
pentecostal, a partir dos temas bíblicos estudados na Escola Dominical da Igreja Assembléia de
Deus, entre os anos de 2000 e 2009. O primeiro capítulo discorre sobre o Movimento Pentecostal
e a Assembléia de Deus no Bras il. O pentecostalismo surge nos Estados Unidos em 1901, sob
influência, principalmente, da pregação metodista da segunda benção, associada ao batismo no
Espírito Santo, buscando restaurar a experiência vivida pela igreja cristã, nos tempos apostólicos.
A Assembléia de Deus brasileira tem sua origem em Belém (PA), em 1911, a partir do trabalho
de dois missionários suecos, Daniel Berg e Gunnar Vingren, i nfluenciados pelo movimento
pentecostal norte-americano. Após décadas de constante cres cimento, representa hoje cerca de
30% dos evangélicos brasileiros, estando presente em todas as regiões do país. Num segundo
momento, são apresentadas refl exões de vários autores, acerc a da teologia e do princípio
pentecostal. O segundo capítulo trata da leitura pentecostal da Bíblia, relacionando os assuntos
estudados na Escola Dominical e avaliando teologicamente os temas mais relevantes: Inspiração
da Bíblia Sagrada, Volta de Jesus, Disciplinas da Vida Cristã , Jesus, Batismo com o Espírito
Santo, Teologia da Prosperidade, Curas e Milagres. O terceiro capítulo observa que a leitura
bíblica praticada pela Assembléia d e Deus é direcionada por uma h ermenêutica pentecostal
conservadora e experimental. Conclui, em termos de perspectiva contemporânea, propondo a
adoção de duas outras ênfases: a diaconal e a profética, traduzidas como a disponibilidade em
servir à Igreja e à comunidade, denunciar as mazelas sociais e buscar a justiça e a paz, preparando
o povo de Deus para o serviço cristão, a fim de construir o corpo de Cristo na realidade brasileira.This dissertation presents a theological evaluation and per spectives for the Pentecostal hermeneutics, from the biblical themes studied in Sunday Sch ool Assembly of God Church, between the years of 2000 and 2009. The first chapter discusses the Pentecostal Movement and the Assembly of God in Brazil. Pentecostalism emerged in the United States in 1901, influenced mainly by the "second blessing" Methodist preaching associated with the baptism in the Holy Spirit, seeking to restore the lived experience of the Chris tian church in apostolic times . The Brazilian Assembly of God has its origin in Belem (PA), in 1911, from the work of two Swedish missionaries, Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren, influenced by the American Pentecostal movement. After decades of steady growth, it currently represents about 30% of the Brazilian evangelicals, being present in all the regions of the country. In a second moment, reflections of some authors are presented about theology and Pentecostal principle. The second chapter deals with the Pentecostal reading of the Bible, relating the subjects that were taught in the Sunday School and theologically evaluating the most relevant topics: Ins piration of the Holy Bible, Return of Jesus, Disciplines of Christian Life, Jesus, Baptism with the Holy Spirit, Theology of Prosperity, Healing and Miracl es. The third chapter says that Bi ble reading practiced by the Assembly of God is guided by a conservative and experimental Pentecostal hermeneutics. It concludes, in terms of contemporary perspective, proposing the adoption of two other emphases: the diaconal and prophetic, both translated as the willingness to serve the Church and the community, to denounce the social ills and to seek for justice and peace, preparing the people of God for the Christian service, in order to build the body of Christ in the Brazilian reality.
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Welch, Kristen. "Oklahoma Women Preachers, Pioneers, and Pentecostals: An Analysis of the Elements of Collective and Individual Ethos Within the Selected Writings of Women Preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195131.
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In this dissertation, I argue that ethos is generative as James Corder defines it. I seek to show that women preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church who spent a significant amount of their careers in Oklahoma generated an ethos in their autobiographical texts and transcribed, edited interviews that constructed individualized as well as a social instantiations of ethos. I rhetorically analyzed these texts using five categories of ethos as a rubric for making connections between Corderian theory and my case studies: ethos as transformation, ethos as wisdom or authority, ethos in the stated motives and purposes in a text, ethos as charisma, and ethos as dynamic processes built from identification. In chapter one, I lay out my theoretical perspective, situating it within the canonical history of rhetoric. In chapter two, I describe the historical and religious contexts that put my study of women preachers into a wide conversation of views on women preachers and show how my work is a participation in and a continuation of such conversations. In chapter three, I focus on the autobiographical texts from the late nineteenth through the middle twentieth centuries, comparing male constructions of ethos to female from members of the same group. In chapter four, I make connections between the older texts of chapter three and the twenty-first century interviews I collected and transcribed in 2004 in order to demonstrate paradigm shifts that have occurred, as well as to show how new instantiations of ethos are grounded in localized histories as well as larger ones. In chapter five, I turn to a discussion of the nature of truth inside of epistemic rhetorics. Since generative ethos is aligned with epistemic rhetoric, how we construct ethos within a group is tied to our sense of the nature of truth. Particularly interesting is my connection of truth and ethos to the Holy Spirit.
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Black, Jonathan A. "The Church in the eternal purpose of the Triune God : toward a Pentecostal Trinitarian ecclesiology of theosis drawing on the early theology of the Apostolic Church in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Chester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620334.
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This dissertation examines the ecclesiology of the early writers of the Apostolic Church in the United Kingdom, and seeks to build upon this largely neglected body of Pentecostal thought for the contrastive work of contemporary Pentecostal systematic theology. A particular emphasis is placed on the thought of D.P. Williams as the most significant Apostolic writer of the early years of the movement. Connections between Apostolic ecclesiology and the Pentecostal distinctive of the baptism in the Holy Spirit are examined, as well as the role of Trinitarian theology in early Apostolic ecclesiology. Attention is then given both to distinctive Apostolic themes, including the 5-fold ministry and the Eternal Purpose, as well as their approach to other ecclesiological doctrines including the Totus Christus and the Lord’s Supper, before moving on to a constructive synthesis.
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Foltz, Howard L. "Developing a church-based missionary preparation program for charismatic churches." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Cotner, Richard. "Pentecost and its discontents /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3137689.
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Elsadanam, Isaac [Verfasser]. "A Pentecostal Voice on the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification : Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification: A Pentecostal Assessment / Isaac Elsadanam." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1211316254/34.
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Bullerwell, V. Scott. "A Bible college course entitled: Preaching the Old Testament." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Martino, Luis Mauro Sa. "Media and religion : A case study on Brazilian Pentecostal denominations." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522251.
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Frahm-Arp, Kaethe Maria. "Women of valour : professional women in South African Pentecostal churches." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/38294/.
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Rapid social change has become a hallmark of post-apartheid South Africa and part of this process has been the expansion of a middle class amongst previously disadvantaged people. My thesis contributes to our understanding of this upward mobility by investigating the role of two Pentecostal-Charismatic Christian churches in helping young, professional, previously disadvantaged women (re)shape their identities and negotiate the various networks of social, economic and political power they encounter as they strive towards socio-economic advancement. The thesis details His People and Grace Bible church and gives an explanation of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in South Africa. In contrast to Latin American studies it is argued that within both churches there was a masculinization, rather than feminization of Christianity, which was attractive to men and women. Using some of Bourdieu's ideas I have tried to show that a central contribution these churches make in the lives of some of their members is to help them develop various social and cultural capital resources, which they felt they lacked. Through their engagement with these churches women (re)shaped their identities seeing themselves as having a life purpose and the potential to realise it. Their identities as mothers, wives and single women were impacted by the ideal of the nuclear family and wifely submission upheld in both churches and which the women in this study tried to fulfil. By aligning themselves with this ideal women found their faith legitimated distancing themselves from their extended families and the various demands of African cultural practices. Both churches strove to establish a sanitised, modem, African Christianity, which promoted individuality and socio-economic success, and offered an alternative to the hedonistic trends of popular Y culture.