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      Contextual theology on trial?
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      African neo-Pentecostalism, sacred authority, gendered constructions, and violent enactions

      Contextual theology on trial?

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      Contextual theology on trial? book

      African neo-Pentecostalism, sacred authority, gendered constructions, and violent enactions
      ByChammah J. Kaunda
      BookContextual Theology

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 22
      eBook ISBN 9780429348006
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter argues that the uncritical inculturation of traditional concepts of authority/power within neo-Pentecostalism is a critical factor in shaping local contextual forces such as social, relational, gender, sexuality, economic, political, and cultural. The need for decolonial kenotic theology of authority arises out of the understanding that neo-Pentecostalism has uncritically inculturated a patriarchal reading of the concepts of traditional authority into its religious system. In contemporary African neo-Pentecostalism, these African religious imaginations function in the interstices between continuity and discontinuity in terms of their notions of authority. The need for decolonial kenotic theology of authority arises out of the understanding that neo-Pentecostalism has uncritically inculturated a patriarchal reading of the concepts of traditional authority into its religious system. The mystical source of authority forms the foundation of religious imaginations for the majority of African people, an element which has found a safe modern haven within African neo-Pentecostalism.

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