List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

THEME I: FRAMING THE DIALECTICS

Chapter 1: Introduction: Pentecostalism in the Postcolony ? Dialectics, Dynamics, and Transformations

Peter White, Martina Bjorkander, and Elias Kifon Bongmba

Chapter 2: Living in a Complex World: How Pentecostalism Intersects with and Affects the Socio-Political and Religious Realities of Contemporary Africa

Elias Kifon Bongmba

Chapter 3: P(new)umatologisation in African Pentecostalism: A Matrix of Spirit, Resistance, and Renewal

Chammah J. Kaunda

THEME II: POLITICS, POWER, AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY

Chapter 4: Pentecostalism in Uganda: Politics and Adherence to African Worldviews

Evelyn Namakula B Mayanja

Chapter 5: Precarious Pentecostal Politics: Relocating Religious Agency in Ethiopia

Jorg Haustein

Chapter 6: Iviyo loFakazi ? Negotiating Pentecostalism, Anglicanism, Colonialism, and Apartheid in South Africa

Henry Mbaya, and Thokozile J Mbaya

Chapter 7: A Perfect Prophet of the Postcolony ? Babu wa Loliondo

Mika Vahakangas

Chapter 8: The Yoke Is Cracking, But Our Hands Are Still Bound: Imagining a Decolonised Pentecostal Theology in Malawi

Harvey Kwiyani

THEME III: GENDER, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Chapter 9: The Woman Called Man: A Lens into Gender Dynamics and the Import Transformation in African Pentecostalism

Itohan Idumwonyi

Chapter 10: Swedish Pentecostalism in Rwanda: Women's Participation in Its Implantation, Expansion, and Identity Negotiations

Viateur Habarurema

Chapter 11: Reordering the Christian Home: Pentecostalism and Family Life Transformations in Ghana

Felicity Apaah

THEME IV: WORSHIP, SOUNDSCAPES, AND CULTURAL REFRAMING

Chapter 12: Tope Alabi and the Oriki of Olodumare: Reframing Yoruba Praise Poetry in Pentecostal Soundscapes

Akeem Adagbada

Chapter 13: Moving with the One Who Moves: Pentecostal Worship as a Dialectic Ritual Practice

Martina Bjorkander

Chapter 14: 'Born-Again' Kingship and Pentecostal Musical Performance in Nigeria: A Study of the Royal Fathers' Choir of the Redeemed Christian Church of God

Toyin Samuel Ajose

THEME V: ECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIAL PRAXIS

Chapter 15: Contextual Analysis of Money and Socioeconomic Realities: Ghanaian Pentecostals' Perspective

Jeremiah Agbeshie

Chapter 16: Together Towards Life and Mission: An Appraisal of Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatics Council's Theology and Praxis in Light of the SDGs 1, 2, 5, 8, and 10

Peter White

Chapter 17: Reimagining Development in Postcolonial Africa through the Lens of Nigerian Neo-Pentecostal Churches

Babatunde Adedibu

THEME VI: YOUTH, PROPHECY, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Chapter 18: African Pentecostalism, African Ancestorship, and the Gap in Between

Benson Ohihon Igboin

Chapter 19: Flow and Movement in Charismatic Christianity in Ghana: Reflections on Young Pastors and the Charismatic Move

Karen Lauterbach

Chapter 20: Conclusion: Concluding Remarks and Constructive Reflections on Pentecostal Dynamics in Postcolonial Africa

Martina Bjorkander, Peter White, and Elias Kifon Bongmba

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