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'Make a Complete Break With the Past.' Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse'
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In this article, the authors explore le lien du pentecotisme a la memoire and a la modernite and montre comment the conversion Pentecotiste implique une rupture avec le passe and la tradition.Abstract:
L'A. montre comment le discours des pentecotistes dans le contexte de la politique du Ghana amene a un rejet de la politique gouvernementale. L'article explore le lien du pentecotisme a la memoire et a la modernite et montre comment la conversion pentecotiste implique une rupture avec le passe et la tradition et implique une acceptation de la modernite sans soumission.read more
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Continuity thinking and the problem of christian culture : Belief, time, and the anthropology of christianity
TL;DR: A close reading of the Comaroffs' Of Revelation and Revolution illustrates the ways in which anthropologists sideline Christianity and leads to a discussion of reasons the anthropology of Christianity has languished as discussed by the authors.
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Christianity in Africa: From African Independent to Pentecostal‐Charismatic Churches
Birgit Meyer,Birgit Meyer +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the role of Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches (PCCs) in post-colonization African societies, focusing on African Independent Churches (AICs).
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“Praise the Lord”: Popular cinema and pentecostalite style in Ghana's new public sphere
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the elective affinity between Pentecostalism and the vibrant video-film industry that has flourished in the wake of Ghana's adoption of a democratic constitution.
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The Anthropology of Christianity
TL;DR: The authors surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity, arguing that demographic and world-historical forces have made it such that anthropology has had to recently come to terms with Christianity as an ethnographic object.
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Infidel Brands: Unveiling Alternative Meanings of Global Brands at the Nexus of Globalization, Consumer Culture, and Islamism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the religious ideology of Islamism informs brand meanings among low-income Turkish consumers and identify three discourses that construct global brands as infidels.
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Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture
Margaret M. Poloma,Karla Poewe +1 more
TL;DR: Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture as discussed by the authors provides a comprehensive overview of a charismatic tapestry that appears to transcend national, ethnic, racial, and class boundaries in the United States.
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Historicity and pluralism in some recent studies of Yoruba religion
TL;DR: In this article, the author of the third study considered here, J. K. Olupona, stands intellectually in the lineage of Parrinder, and, though his primary focus is 'traditional' festivals, his account is suffused with a due sense of the religious pluralism of the community.
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