Pentecostalism in Africa : presence and impact of pneumatic Christianity in postcolonial societies

397 Pages·2015·1.59 MB·English

by  Lindhardt

Pentecostalism in Africa
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Global Pentecostal and
Charismatic Studies
Edited by
Andrew Davies
William Kay
Editorial Board
Kimberley Alexander (Pentecostal Theological Seminary)
Allan Anderson (University of Birmingham)
Mark Cartledge (University of Birmingham)
Jacqueline Grey (Alphacrucis College, Sydney)
Byron D Klaus (Assemblies of God Theological Seminary,
Springfield, MO)
Wonsuk Ma (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies)
Jean-Daniel Plüss (European Pentecostal/Charismatic
Research Association)
Cecil M Robeck, Jr (Fuller Theological Seminary)
Calvin Smith (King’s Evangelical Divinity School)
VOLUME 15
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Pentecostalism in Africa
Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in
Postcolonial Societies
Edited by
Martin Lindhardt
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Pentecostalism in Africa : presence and impact of pneumatic Christianity in postcolonial societies / edited
by Martin Lindhardt.
  pages cm. -- (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies, ISSN 1876-2247 ; VOLUME 15)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-28186-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-28187-5 (e-book) 1. Pentecostalism--Africa.
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Contents
List of Contributors vii
1 Introduction
Presence and Impact of Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity
in Africa 1
Martin Lindhardt
2 ‘‘Stretching out hands to God’’
Origins and Development of Pentecostalism in Africa 54
Allan Heaton Anderson
3 wfp Burton and the Birth of Congolese Pentecostalism 75
David J. Garrard
4 Pentecostalism and the Transformation of the African Christian
Landscape 100
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
5 Unity and Diversity within African Pentecostalism
Comparison of the Christianities of Daniel Olukoya
and David Oyedepo 115
Paul Gifford
6 “All Answers”
On the phenomenal success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic
Church in South Africa 136
Ilana van Wyk
7 Continuity, Change or Coevalness?
Charismatic Christianity and Tradition in Contemporary
Tanzania 163
Martin Lindhardt
8 Gender and Pentecostalism in Africa 191
Jane Soothill
9 Pentecostalism, ‘Post- secularism,’ and the Politics of Affect
In Africa and Beyond 220
Jean Comaroff
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10 Pentecostalism and Development in sub-Saharan Africa 248
Ben Jones
11 Encoding Caesar’s Realm – Variants of Spiritual Warfare Politics
in Africa 270
Andreas Heuser
12 Pentecostals and Politics in Nigeria and Zambia
An Historical Perspective 291
Richard Burgess
13 Pentecostals and Politics
Redefining Big Man Rule in Africa 322
John F. McCauley
14 The liveliness of Pentecostal/charismatic popular culture
in Africa 345
Katrien Pype
A fterword 379
William K. Kay
Index  383
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List of Contributors
Allan Heaton Anderson
is Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham,
England. He spent over four decades in Southern Africa before moving to
Birmingham in 1995. He has authored many articles and his books include
Zion and Pentecost (2000), African Reformation (2001), Introduction to
Pentecostalism (2004, 2014), Spreading Fires (2007) and To the Ends of the
Earth (2013). He has co-edited Pentecostals After a Century (1999), Studying
Global Pentecostalism (2010), and Asian and Pentecostal (2012).
Richard Burgess
is a Lecturer in Theology at the University of Roehampton, London. From
2010–2012, he was principal investigator on a research project which focused
on Pentecostal civic engagement in Nigeria and Zambia (funded by The
Templeton Foundation and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at
the University of Southern California). Prior to this, he worked as a lecturer at
the Theological College of Northern Nigeria (affiliated to the University of Jos).
He has published on Pentecostalism in Africa and the African diaspora.
Jean Comaroff
is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African American Studies and
Anthropology at Harvard University. She is also honorary professor at the
University of Cape Town. Her research has focused on the making and unmak-
ing of colonialism in southern Africa, medicine and body politics, religion and
state transformation, crime and the “metaphysics” of disorder. Recent publica-
tions include “Beyond the Politics of Bare Life: aids and the Global Order”
(2007); The Politics of Conviction: Faith on the Neoliberal Frontier (2009); and,
with John L. Comaroff, Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (2006), Ethnicity, Inc.
(2009), and Theory from the South, or How Euro-America is Evolving Toward
Africa (2012).
Dave Garrard
holds a Ph.D. in African Church History and, Missions and Philosophy of
Religions, and is presently the director of is cam International, Preston, Lancs.,
uk (previously Congo Evangelistic Mission then Zaire Evangelistic Mission
then Central African Missions). He has been a visiting lecturer at colleges in
Zaire/DRCongo as well as in Zambia, South Africa and Malaysia and he has
published extensively on missionary history in Africa.
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Paul Gifford
is emeritus Professor of African Christianity at the School of Oriental
and African Studies (soas) of the University of London. He has written
extensively on African Christianity, most recently Christianity, Politics
and Public Life in Kenya (London: Hurst, 2009) and Christianity, Develop-
ment and Modernity in Africa (London: Hurst, 2014). Currently he lives in
Senegal.
Andreas Heuser
since 2012 Professor for Extra-European Christianity (with a focus on Africa)
at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Before lecturer in Mission Studies,
Church History and Systematic Theology at Tumaini University Makumira,
Tanzania; and Head of Studies at the Academy of Missions at the University
of Hamburg, Germany. Theologian and Political Scientist; PhD in Mission
Studies and History of Religions (Heidelberg University, Germany). Research
foci on African Instituted Churches (aic) in Southern Africa, on the
Pentecostal movement in West Africa (Ghana), and migrant Christianity in
Switzerland.
Ben Jones
is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Development at the
University of East Anglia. His work focuses on the Teso region of eastern
Uganda. He is the author of Beyond the State in Rural Uganda (2009), which
was awarded the Elliott P. Skinner prize by the American Anthropological
Association.
William K. Kay
completed a BA and MA at Trinity College, Oxford. Later he took an MEd and a
PhD in Education at Reading University and followed this by a PhD in theology
at the University of Nottingham, where he was later awarded a dd. He was
Senior Lecturer at King’s College, London, Reader at Bangor University,
Professor of Theology at Glyndŵr University and later Professor of Pentecostal
Studies at the University of Chester.
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
is Baeta-Grau Professor of African Christianity and Pentecostal Theology at
the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra, Ghana. He is author of
Contemporary African Christianity: Interpretations from an African Context
(Oxford: Regnum International, 2013).
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Martin Lindhardt
is an associate professor of cultural sociology at the University of Southern
Denmark. He received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University
of Aarhus, Denmark, in 2004. His research and writing mainly focus on
Pentecostalism in Chile and on Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity and witch-
craft in Tanzania. He is the author of “Power in Powerlessness. A study of
Pentecostal Life-worlds in Urban Chile” (Brill 2012) and the editor of “Practicing
the Faith. The Ritual Life of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians” (Berghahn 2011).
John F. McCauley
is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of
Maryland, College Park. He is also a research affiliate in the Center for
International Development and Conflict Management. He received his Ph.D.
in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2010. He
has a B.A. in Economics from the College of William & Mary and an M.A. in
International Relations from Yale University. Dr. McCauley’s research focuses
on the role of religion and ethnicity in African politics. He is also interested in
conflict and cooperation, informal institutions, and development.
Katrien Pype
is an assistant professor at the University of Leuven and a fellow at the
University of Birmingham. Her main research interests are in religion, popular
culture and technology of contemporary African societies. Katrien is an
anthropologist, who has been conducting extensive fieldwork in Kinshasa
since 2002. Her monograph, The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion,
Media, and Gender in Kinshasa is published with BerghahnBooks (2012). With
Steven Van Wolputte and Anne Melice, Katrien co-edited two special issues on
religion, mobility and media in Africa and its diasporas (Canadian Journal of
African Studies, 2012, and Social Compass, 2014).
Jane Soothill
received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London. She has published on charismatic Christianity, gender and social
change in Ghana. She continues to be interested in contemporary African
Christianity, gender identities, women’s rights and African masculinities.
Ilana van Wyk
is an anthropologist and works as a researcher at the Institute for Humanities
in Africa at the University of Cape Town. She completed her PhD at the School
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of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in 2007 and recently pub-
lished her first monograph entitled The Universal Church of the Kingdom of
God in South Africa: A Church of Strangers (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Her current research focuses on the intersections between religion and money,
the South African Lottery and spectacular forms of spending among poor
township dwellers in Cape Town.
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