Articles with the keyword socio-political effects

• Paul Gifford

  PUBLIC LECTURE - The Primal Pentecostal Imagination: Variants, origins and importance

  Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society Volume 34(2) 2009:44-51

  Abstract

  This paper addresses the religious world-view that is characteristic of a great
  many of the Pentecostal Churches currently flourishing in Africa. In the opinion
  of the author, this world-view, which sees spiritual forces active in everyday events,
  is the greatest single reason for their success. This world-view comes in different
  but related forms, and three different forms currently found in Kenya are outlined
  here. These forms have obvious links to local religious thinking, but are also
  dependent for their expression on certain Western thinking. Finally it is claimed
  that this world-view, though in most studies of Pentecostalism virtually ignored,
  has important socio-political effects and merits serious discussion.

  Keywords Africa, Pentecostalism, socio-political effects, world-view