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Richman, ‘Machine Gun Prayer’

Richman, Naomi. 2020. ‘Machine gun prayer: the politics of embodied desire in Pentecostal worship.’ Journal of Contemporary Religion 35(3): 469-483. …

January 4, 2021 Leanne Williams Green

Brennan, “Singing Yoruba Christianity”

Brennan, Vicki. 2017. Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  Publisher’s Description: Singing the same song is a …

February 4, 2018 ndca-admin

Jennings, “Great Risk for the Kingdom”

Jennings, Mark Alan Charles.  2017. Great Risk for the Kingdom: Pentecostal-Charismatic Growth Churches, Pastorpreneurs, and Neoliberalism.  In, Multiculturalism and the …

January 5, 2017 ndca-admin

Davie-Kessler, “‘Discover Your Destiny’: Sensation, Time, and Bible Reading among Nigerian Pentecostals”

Davie-Kessler, Jesse. 2016.  “Discover Your Destiny”: Sensation, Time, and Bible Reading among Nigerian Pentecostals. Anthropologica 58(1):1-14.  Abstract: Pentecostal Christians in southwest Nigeria …

June 23, 2016 ndca-admin

Marshall, “Destroying arguments and captivating thoughts”

Marshall, Ruth.  2016. Destroying arguments and captivating thoughts: Spiritual warfare prayer as global praxis. Journal of Religious and Political Practice. …

January 15, 2016 ndca-admin

Gaiya, “Charismatic and Pentecostal Social Orientations”

Gaiya, Musa A. B. 2015. Charismatic and Pentecostal Social Orientations in Nigeria.  Nova Religio 18(3): 63-79. Abstract: This article identifies …

February 13, 2015 ndca-admin

Burgess, “Pentecostalism and Democracy in Nigeria”

Burgess, Richard.  2015. Pentecostalism and Democracy in Nigeria: Electoral Politics, Prophetic Practices, and Cultural Reformation.  Nova Religio 18(3): 38-62. Abstract: …

February 13, 2015 ndca-admin

James, ed. “A Moving Faith: Megachurches Go South.”

James, Jonathan, ed. 2015. A Moving Faith: Megachurches Go South. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. Publishers’s Description: A Moving Faith captures the dynamic shift of …

February 2, 2015 ndca-admin

Onuoha, “‘Exit’ and ‘Inclusion'”

Onuoha, Godwin. 2013. “Exit” and “Inclusion”: The Changing Paradigm of Pentecostal Expression in the Nigerian Public Sphere. In Topographies of …

December 20, 2013 ndca-admin

Film, “Enlarging the Kingdom”

Butticci, Annalisa and Andrew Esiebo. 2013. Enlarging the Kingdom: African Pentecostals in Italy. 35 min. Filmmaker’s Description: Enlarging the Kingdom …

November 12, 2013 ndca-admin

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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
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