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Public Religion after Genocide: Pentecostal Sounds and Voice in Rwanda
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 194–204.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Andrea Mariko Grant Abstract This article explores Pentecostal sounds and voice in postgenocide Rwanda. It centers on the question of why gospel singers were criticized for crossing over into “secular” music after beginning their careers in the church. Joining scholarship that examines...
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Concretizing the Christian Nation: Negotiating Zambia's National House of Prayer
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 166–174.
Published: 01 August 2021
... nationalism, now thirty years in the making. Zambia is the only African country to make a state-sponsored declaration that it is a “Christian nation,” a pronouncement first made in 1991 by the Pentecostal president Fredrick Chiluba. 5 Five years later the declaration was enshrined in the preamble...
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Word, Image, Sound: Religious Publicities in Africa and South Asia
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 148–152.
Published: 01 August 2021
... vision, the legitimate scope of Christianity is tightly policed, and it favors Pentecostalism. A political theology takes shape in the blueprint stage, literally. What Haynes's work shows so well is how publicity gets planned—how publics can reside in sets of visual images and their attendant...
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Drowning in Context: Translating Salvation in Myanmar
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 175–184.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in September 2016 at a small Pentecostal church I call New Life, housed on the top floor of a skinny apartment building above a noisy bus stop in a neighborhood northeast of Yangon's downtown. 1 It had been almost a year since the election that brought the National League for Democracy to power, ostensibly...
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Introduction: The Properties of Christianity in the Middle East
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2025) 45 (1): 153–166.
Published: 01 May 2025
... example of this is Joel Robbins's well-known and important argument that the experience of temporal rupture is central to and even paradigmatic of the Christian tradition. Robbins shows convincingly in Becoming Sinners and elsewhere the extent to which Urapmin Pentecostals experience such moments...
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“Nigeria Can Do without Such Perverts”: Sexual Anxiety and Political Crisis in Postcolonial Nigeria
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 3–20.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Pentecostal Progeny (1967–2006) . Milton Keynes, UK : Regnum , 2008 . Callaway Barbara . Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change . 1st ed. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 1987 . Canning Paul . “Austria Deports African Gay Footballer.” LGBT Asylum News...
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On Dankwa's Gift
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 680–685.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., seniority, urban sociality, and postcolonial precarity turn out to be full of norms that already contain queer possibilities. At a certain point, Dankwa even hints at the queer affordances of charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity (which are often only known for their stark condemnations of same-sex...
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The Power of the “Knowing Women”: A Decolonial Perspective on Female Same-Sex Intimacy in Ghana
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 671–675.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in West Africa. Drawing on the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, Dankwa points out how the increasing of a certain anxiety toward same-sex sexuality is concomitant with the rise of Neo-Pentecostalism, a movement within evangelical Protestant Christianity in the United States, called Charismatic...
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Doing Knowledge through Knowing Women
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 676–680.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Chapter 1 tells how the landscapes of neoliberalism and religion have brought sexuality into discourse. LGBT+ activism, the growth of religious (i.e., Pentecostal) hegemony, and the media that reinforced them have created a context in which sexuality was called into question. In the process...
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Muslims and Christians in Nigeria: Attitudes Towards the United States from a Post-September 11 th Perspective
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 213–221.
Published: 01 May 2004
...” attracted
influence was considerable through direct political the attention of millions of Nigerian Christians.29 As
nominations and in their leaderships of mass move- part of a worldwide phenomenon, Pentecostal
ments such as Yan Izala and student associations.25 churches were spread all over Nigeria...
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Introduction: Area Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Critical Pedagogies
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 580–590.
Published: 01 December 2007
... in an essay to radical forms of Islam and Pentecostalism. 581
of 1993.3 Anderson suggests in his piece that Though his analysis is not to be taken lightly,
the condition and sense of “exile” is the most the implied binarism between the metropolitan
productive locus for understanding national...
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Recent Developments in Inter-Regional Mobilization of Dalit Protest in India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 86–96.
Published: 01 August 1987
..., economically ex•
ern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh, but ploited, and humanly oppressed classes.
this means three distinct languages in three distinct scripts. Thus the Dalit (social) consciousness and
A Pentecostal Adi-Dravidian in Tamil Nadu shares the bur• the class (economic...
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The Rise of New Cultural Identitarian Movements in Africa and Asia in the Emerging Multipolar System
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 644–661.
Published: 01 December 2012
... démocratie” (“Controversial
Perspective: Iran and Venezuela,” Comparative Stud-
Koonings and Dirk Kruijt (London: ZED Books, 1999), Civil Society: Pentecostalism and Democracy Tiers...
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Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part II
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 May 1994
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American movements as the Christian Schools core) shares with the Lefebvrists and the radical
Movement, the Evangelicals, the Pentecostals, the Islamists (Shukri Mustafa in particular), is its utter
Dispensationalists, the Geneva Ministries (named boldness, fierce consistency, principled rigidity...
