African Pentecostalism from African Perspectives Volume 2: Themes

This book makes a significant contribution to the study of African Pentecostalism, by reflecting on their output. Deviating from the widespread phenomenon of scholars from the Global North being dominant voices on African Pentecostalism, this volume brings together African scholars from diverse academic disciplines and African/Diasporan to showcase how they’ve helped to shape the field. This volume addresses the lacuna in the available scholarship by undertaking detailed analyses of how scholarship and exemplifies the various areas where African scholars have made and continue to make contributions. The included chapters engage in methodological debates on African Pentecostalism from the continent as well as from African diaspora, and is a must read for scholars working on Pentecostalism.

1: Introduction: African Scholars and the Study of African Pentecostalism.- 2: Interpreting Pentecostalism and the Changing Religious Landscape in Africa.- 3: African Pentecostalism: A Preliminary Study of Approaches and Key Issues.- 4: Encountering African Pentecostalism: methodologies and evolving tendencies.- 5: From Face-to-Face to Online: Changing Spaces and Voices in African Pentecostalism.- 6: Investigating African Pentecostalism: The Problems, Prospects and Rewards of a Multi-sited Ethnography.- 7: Studying African Pentecostalism: One Woman Scholar’s Journey.- 8: “Are you Pentecostal?” Personal experiences in the study of African Pentecostalism.- 9: Tracing a personal journey towards Women in African Pentecostalism.- 10: Pentecostal Scholarship in Uganda: Trends, Trajectories and Challenges.- 11: The Study of Zambian Pentecostalism by Zambian Scholars: A Review.- 12: African Scholarship on African Pentecostalism in Diasporic Contexts: An Overview.- 13: A Review of African Scholarship on African Pentecostalism and the Natural Environment.

Ezra Chitando is a Professor of History and Phenomenology of Religion at the University of Zimbabwe, and World Council of Churches Theology Consultant on HIV and AIDS in Africa. 

Lovemore Togarasei is a Professor of Religious Studies at the Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe.

Loreen Maseno is a Senior Lecturer at Maseno University, Kenya