Religion without belief and community in Africa

dc.contributor.authorKroesbergen, Hermen
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-14T06:03:33Z
dc.date.available2020-07-14T06:03:33Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-25
dc.description.abstractReligion in Africa is in many respects becoming religion without belief and community again, I will argue in this article. Europeans arriving in Africa did not recognize African religion, because Africans did not have the kind of belief and community characteristic of European concepts of religion. Pentecostalization brings back this African concept of religion without worship groups defined by an adherence to a particular picture of the world, and I will show what this means at grassroots level. What matters in this concept of religion is whether something works rather than some implied truth-claims about the world. Instead of forming groups, Neo-Pentecostal ministries are more often organized around the vertical relationship between the man/woman of God and his/her client. The Pentecostalization of Christianity in Africa has led to a form of religion in which beliefs and community are not of central importance.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentDogmatics and Christian Ethicsen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhj2020en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipUP Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.description.uriwww.mdpi.com/journal/religionsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKroesbergen, H. Religion without Belief and Community in Africa. Religions 2019, 10(4), 292. https://DOI.org/10.3390/rel10040292en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2077-1444 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.3390/rel10040292
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/75195
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherMDPIen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.en_ZA
dc.subjectConcept of religionen_ZA
dc.subjectBeliefen_ZA
dc.subjectCommunityen_ZA
dc.subjectNeo-Pentecostalismen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican Christianityen_ZA
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-01
dc.subject.otherSDG-01: No poverty
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-05
dc.subject.otherSDG-05: Gender equality
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.titleReligion without belief and community in Africaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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