TY - BOOK ID - 33054247 TI - Spirit-Filled World : Religious Dis/Continuity in African Pentecostalism PY - 2018 SN - 3319737295 3319737309 PB - Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Pentecostalism KW - Spiritualism KW - Communication with the dead KW - Dead, Communication with the KW - Metapsychology KW - Spiritism KW - Occultism KW - Charismatic Movement KW - Charismatic Renewal Movement KW - Latter Rain movement KW - Neo-Pentecostalism KW - Pentecostal movement KW - Christianity KW - Gifts, Spiritual KW - Glossolalia KW - Evangelicalism. KW - Ethnology-Africa. KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. KW - Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism. KW - African Culture. KW - History of Sub-Saharan Africa. KW - Evangelical religion KW - Protestantism, Evangelical KW - Evangelical Revival KW - Fundamentalism KW - Pietism KW - Protestantism KW - Ethnology—Africa. KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. KW - Spiritualism--Africa KW - Pentecostalism--Africa UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33054247 AB - This book is about African Pentecostalism and its relationship to religious beliefs about a pervading spirit world. It argues that Pentecostalism keeps both a continuous and a discontinuous relationship in tension. Based on field research in a South African township, including qualitative interviews and focus group discussions, the study explores the context of African Pentecostalism as a whole and how it interacts with the concepts of ancestors, divination, and various types of spirit. Themes discussed include the reasons for the popularity of healing, exorcism, the “prosperity gospel,” the experience of the Holy Spirit, Spirit manifestations and practices resembling both traditional and biblical precedents, as well as scholarly discussions on African Pentecostalism from theological and social scientific disciplines. The book suggests that the focus on a spirit-filled world affects all kinds of events and explains the rapid growth of Pentecostalism outside the western world. ER -