Spiritual warfare in Africa: Towards understanding the classical model in light of witchcraft practices and the Christian response by Amos Y. Luka

Subjects: Get full text

Woman Trafficking dan Respon Gereja di Nusa Tenggara Timur by Ester Mariani Rihi Ga

Subjects: Get full text

Religious Groups and Their Influence on Interstate Relations (The Case of U.S.-Israel Relations) by Igor Istomin

Subjects: Get full text

Religious Groups and Their Influence on Interstate Relations (The Case of U.S.-Israel Relations) by Igor Istomin

Subjects: Get full text

“Militant baptism” as evaluated by a group of researchers for the Propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union Communist Party by Maria Kolmakova

Subjects: “…council of churches of evangelical christian baptists…”
Get full text

Adopting a human rights based approach to international Christian development by Stanley Arumugam

“…The critical role of evangelical Christianity in addressing poverty as a human rights issue in South Africa is also dealt with briefly.…”
Get full text

Talking Back: Phillis Wheatley, Race, and Religion by Keith Byerman

“…This essay examines the means by which African American poet Phillis Wheatley uses her evangelical Christianity to engage issues of race in revolutionary America. …”
Get full text

A religião na cidade: territórios, materialidades e comunicação by Helena Vilaça

“…This happens in Christianity itself and across its various branches, although it is particularly observable in evangelical Christianity.…”
Get full text

Recent historical scholarship of evangelicalism by B. Wearne

“…Books like Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994), Stuart Piggin's Evangelical Christianity in Australia; Spirit, Word and World (1996) and David Bebbington's Evangelicalism in Modern Britain (1989) are evidence of a sustained attempt by evangelical historians to re-appraise the history of their religion. …”
Get full text

Exorcising the Mandala: Kālacakra and the Neo-Pentecostal Response by Laura Harrington

“…<span>Since the late 1990s, the Dalai Lama's "Kalachakra for World Peace" initiation has emerged as a central site where Tibetan Buddhism and its relationship to the West have been imagined and acted upon by a movement within evangelical Christianity called Spiritual Mapping. In Mapping understanding, the Kālacakra is a vehicle by which the current Dalai Lama prepares for the end times by seeking to transform America into "a universal Buddhocracy" called the Kingdom of Shambhala. …”
Get full text

‘The Wisest Man in the East’ by Tuomas Järvenpää

“… This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the performance of gospel rap music as part of Evangelical Christian youthwork in Finland. The article is based on my observations of six onsite and five online events that featured gospel rap music in their line-up, as well as interviews with nine musicians and three event organizers. …”
Get full text

“To Crush the Serpent”: James Baldwin, the Religious Right, and the Moral Minority by Joseph Vogel

“…His critique adapted accordingly, focusing on the ways in which religion—particularly white evangelical Christianity—had morphed into a movement deeply enmeshed with mass media, conservativepolitics, and late capitalism. …”
Get full text

“Spiritual Warfare” or “Crimes against Humanity”? Evangelized Drug Traffickers and Violence against Afro-Brazilian Religions in Rio de Janeiro by Danielle N. Boaz

“…Motivated by their conversion to sects of Evangelical Christianity that regard Afro-Brazilian religions as devil worship, the traffickers have forcibly expelled devotees of these faiths from their homes and temples, destroyed shrines and places of worship, and threatened to kill priests if they continue to practice their religion. …”
Get full text

How Can You Know the Bible and Not Believe in Our Lord? Guiding Pilgrims across the Jewish–Christian Divide by Jackie Feldman

“…I outline several faith interactions: Between reading the Bible as an affirmation of Christian faith or as a legitimation of Israeli heritage, between commitments to missionary Evangelical Christianity and to Judaism, between Evangelical practice and those of other Christian groups at holy sites, and between faith-based certainties and scientific skepticism. …”
Get full text

Narrating Embodied Aims. Self-transformation in Conversion Narratives—A Psychological Analysis by Ulrike Popp-Baier

“…The case history presented in this article tries to show how the interviewee came to terms with unbearable embodied aims by telling her conversion story in the framework of the canonic language of Charismatic-Evangelical Christianity. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0103165…”
Get full text

On studying religion, media and the young people by Nina Maskulin

“…The role of Evangelical Christianity and the core narrative of the apocalypse, as well as the clear polarities of good and evil are analysed in two of the studies which give a description of the global and transnational dimension, while the other two put more emphasis on the local, cultural and historical dimensions. …”
Get full text

An evangelical voice in Africa: the worldview background of the theology of Tokunboh Adeyemo (1 October 1944-17 March 2010) by B. J. van der Walt

“…Thirdly, it is followed by the strengths and weaknesses of Evangelical Christianity of which Adeyemo was a representative. …”
Get full text

Western Protestantism in the Context of Postmodernity: Theological and Sociological Interpretations of Emerging Church Movement by Roman Soloviy 

“…In particular, the phenomenon of post-modern religiosity is interpreted as a form of protest against the traditional evangelical Protestantism, as the movement of cultural and religious criticism, whose identity is formed by the deconstruction of narratives and discourses of traditional evangelical Christianity, as the autonomous Protestant tradition that applies postmodern forms of knowledge for rethinking of the Christian faith. …”
Get full text

A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance: Conversion to Christianity and the struggle for being in Sinja, Nepal by Samuele Poletti

“…The reasons why people are drawn towards Evangelical Christianity in particular are primarily existential and are intimately related to the problematic situations they are confronted with in their lives, which are rooted in turn in a very specific understanding of personhood. …”
Get full text

Investigating the place of religion within the professional identity construction of two Muslim English language teachers in Saudi Arabia by Mayez Almayez

“…Yet, even when the literature in ELT does engage with these issues, it mostly investigates links between evangelical Christianity and ELT. The relationship between other religions [e.g., Islam] and English language education remains remarkably underexplored . …”
Get full text