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The Line: Barriers to Ministry and Community for LGBTQ+ People in Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
The second interview-based chapter relates LGBTQ+ experiences of “the line”—the barrier preventing their full participation in ministry and...
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Pentecostal Ministry During COVID-19 in South Africa: Pastoral Care Perspective
The impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on Pentecostal ministry in South Africa has resulted in some pastoral ministers braving the storm and succeed,...
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Navigating the Gender Problem: Dress Codes, Ministry, and the Order of Creation
This chapter explores the Christian Congregation, Christian Assembly, and Brazilian Assemblies of God’s shifting attitudes toward dress and ministry....
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Missionary Work in China: Benign Ministry or State Subversion?
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has had, and continues to have, a complicated relationship with Christian missionaries. On the one hand,...
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Contributing to Local and Civil Society: Explorations for a Context-Sensitive and Public Character of Pastoral Ministry
East Germany has been a region of radical social and ecclesial change for the past decades. Drawing from a qualitative study on implicit orientations...
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Recent Developments of Youth Ministry in China
To understand what is emerging in the Church in China, the study of the development of youth ministry since the early 2000s is very enlightening....
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Faith Community Nursing: As Health Ministry
Faith communities are recognized as epic-centers of spiritual and moral development. Faith community nursing refocuses the mission of the local...
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Pastoral Interventions During the Pandemic Pentecostal Perspectives on Christian Ministry in South Africa
This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the challenges faced by pastoral ministry in South African Pentecostalism as a result of the...
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Church May Be Digital, But Is the Clergy’s Call?
Clergy trained before the pandemic were taught to minister in person, finding their joy for ministry embodied through worship and preaching, pastoral...
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Indigenous Belief Systems, Commercialisation, and New Prophetic Movements
The common and known trend of commercialising religion, is when pastors solicit money and other gifts from their congregants and/or admirers, in...
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More Than an Issue of Translation: The “defectus ordinis” in Unitatis Redintegratio 22
This chapter explores the drafting history of the term defectus ordinis (UR 22) and its contemporary ecumenical implications. A detailed drafting...
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Competing Temporalities in a Fijian Pentecostal Church
This chapter examines competing conceptions of history in an independent Fijian Pentecostal church, the Harvest Ministry. The chapter argue that...
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“Clean the Nation Spiritually”: The Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs (MNGRA) and the National Sexual Moral Order in Zambia
The study interrogates the concept of “cleaning the nation spiritually” as a catchy phrase in the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious...
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Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
This book relates the unique experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) people in Australian...
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The Role of Pavle Popović in the Development of Anglo-Serbian Relations (1916–1933)
The goal of this chapter is to analyze the activity of Pavle Popović, the first Inspector of the Ministry of Education of Serbia in Great Britain...
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Spiritual Direction: Dancing with the Other
Merton’s vocation of a spiritual director opened a new avenue to the spiritual direction ministry, emphasizing the importance of listening as the...
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Ecstatic Church: Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Australia—Antecedents, History, and Present Shape
This chapter outlines the history and present shape of Australian PCC, together with the unique characteristics which help cultivate high levels of...
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Toward a More Accessible Body of Christ
The global pandemic has forced churches to shift to online worship and explore what it means to be the virtual body of Christ. This shift is...
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The Ethics of Liberation of Rosemary Nkoyo Edet and Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde
Recognizing the subjugation of women in various spheres of life and empowered by their theological prowess, Rosemary Nkoyo Edet and Peggy...
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Attempted Integrations: LGBTQ+ Christians Who Remained in PCC Churches
This chapter contains the accounts of two LGBTQ+ people who, despite challenges, had remained in their PCC congregations, demonstrating how the two...