Williams, Beth Ann. 2018 “Mainline Churches: Networks of Belonging in Postindependence Kenya and Tanzania.” Journal of Religion in Africa 48(3): 255-285. …
East Africa
Lindhardt, “Pentecostalism and the Encounter with Traditional Religion”
Lindhardt, Martin. 2017. Pentecostalism and the Encounter with Traditional Religion in Tanzania: Combat, Congruence and Confusion. PentecoStudies 16(1): 35-58. Abstract: …
Deacon and Parsitau, “Empowered to Submit”
Deacon, Gregory and Damaris Parsitau. 2017. Empowered to Submit: Pentecostal Women in Nairobi. Journal of Religion and Society 19: 1-17. …
Mkallyah, “Indigenous Tanzanian Music in Christian Worship”
Mkallyah, Kassomo. 2016. Affects and Effects of Indigenous Tanzanian Music Traditions in Christian Worship in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Ethnomusicology 60(2): 300-328. …
Boyd, Lydia. 2015. Preaching prevention: born-again Christianity and the moral politics of AIDS in Uganda
Reviewed by Anna Eisenstein (University of Virginia). Lydia Boyd’s Preaching Prevention charts two moments in Uganda’s recent history: the roll-out of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
Deacon, “Driving the Devil Out”
Deacon, Gregory. 2015. Driving the Devil Out: Kenya’s Born-Again Election. Journal of Religion in Africa 45(2): 200-220. Abstract: Neo-Pentecostal or …
Scherz, China. 2014. Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda
Reviewed by Andrea Grant (University of Cambridge). During my fieldwork in Rwanda, I was asked to write a “needs assessment” report for a centre for disabled youth outside of Kigali run by Catholic nuns. I was asked by a friend, a prosperous Rwandan woman in her 40s, who was a member of the centre’s volunteer board, made up of other Rwandan women who wanted to help the centre
Deacon, “Kenya: A Nation Born Again”
Deacon, Gregory. 2015. Kenya: A Nation Born Again. PentecoStudies 14(2): 219-240. Abstract: In much of the work on Pentecostalism and …
Olsson, “With Jesus in Paradise? “
Olsson, Hans. 2015. With Jesus in Paradise?: Pentecostal Migrants in Contemporary Zanzibar. Pneuma 37(1): 21-40. Abstract: This article explores the …
Gez and Droz, “Negotiation and Erosion of Born Again Prestige”
Gez, Yonatan N. and Yvan Droz. 2015. Negotiation and Erosion of Born Again Prestige in Nairobi. Nova Religio 18(3): 18-37. …