Spirit-Filled World Religious Dis/Continuity in African Pentecostalism /

• Main Author: Anderson, Allan Heaton (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies
• Subjects: Evangelicalism.; Ethnology-Africa.; Africa, Sub-Saharan-History.; Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism.; African Culture.; History of Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book is about African Pentecostalism and its relationship to religious beliefs about a pervading spirit world. It argues that Pentecostalism keeps both a continuous and a discontinuous relationship in tension. Based on field research in a South African township, including qualitative interviews...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Spirit of Dis/continuity
• 2. Pentecostalism in the Sub-Sahara.-3. Pentecostalism in a South African Township
• 4. The Ambiguity of Ancestors
• 5. Witchcraft, Spirits, and Misfortune
• 6. Divination, Healing and Deliverance
• 7. Translating the Spirit World
• 8. The Power of the Spirit. .