A Brief History of Industrial Revolutions : Why at the start of the Fourth Industrial Revolution do we see a rise in cult-type Pentecostal churches in South Africa?
- Authors: Frahm-Arp, Maria
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/451221 , uj:39754
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- Authors: Frahm-Arp, Maria
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/451221 , uj:39754
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Pentecostalism, politics, and prosperity in South Africa
- Authors: Frahm-Arp, Maria
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Prosperity , Theology , South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/290214 , uj:31502 , Citation: Frahm-Arp, M. 2018. Pentecostalism, politics, and prosperity in South Africa. Religions 2018, 9, 298; doi:10.3390/rel9100298.
- Description: Abstract: One of the fastest growing religious movements in South Africa is a form of Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelic (PCE) Christianity that has some version of prosperity theology as a central pillar. This paper, based on sermons and interviews with 97 PCE pastors in the area of Johannesburg, South Africa, argues that these churches form loose clusters defined by similar emphases along a continuum of prosperity theology. These clusters are “abilities prosperity,” “progress prosperity,” and “miracle prosperity.” Some churches fall neatly into one of the clusters, while others appear as more of a hybrid between two of these types. The paper shows that a relationship exists between the type of theology preached by PCE churches and the nature and extent of the political engagement that the pastors suggested that members in these churches should have.
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- Authors: Frahm-Arp, Maria
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Prosperity , Theology , South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/290214 , uj:31502 , Citation: Frahm-Arp, M. 2018. Pentecostalism, politics, and prosperity in South Africa. Religions 2018, 9, 298; doi:10.3390/rel9100298.
- Description: Abstract: One of the fastest growing religious movements in South Africa is a form of Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelic (PCE) Christianity that has some version of prosperity theology as a central pillar. This paper, based on sermons and interviews with 97 PCE pastors in the area of Johannesburg, South Africa, argues that these churches form loose clusters defined by similar emphases along a continuum of prosperity theology. These clusters are “abilities prosperity,” “progress prosperity,” and “miracle prosperity.” Some churches fall neatly into one of the clusters, while others appear as more of a hybrid between two of these types. The paper shows that a relationship exists between the type of theology preached by PCE churches and the nature and extent of the political engagement that the pastors suggested that members in these churches should have.
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Surveillance and violence against women in Grace Bible Church and the Zionist Christian Church
- Authors: Frahm-Arp, Maria
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Zionist Christian Church , Grace Bible Church , Christianity , Women - Violence against
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/57864 , uj:16395 , Citation: Frahm-Arp, M. 2015. Surveillance and violence against women in Grace Bible Church and the Zionist Christian Church. Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa, 21(1):71-84. , ISSN:1025-5648
- Description: Abstract: South Africa (SA) has alarmingly high statistics showing that everyday millions of women experience violence perpetrated against them, yet few women report their abuse.Drawing on data from participant observation and interviews, this paper examines how a group of women in Grace Bible Church and the Zionist Christian Church understand experiences of violence against women and why they so often do not report abuse. Using Foucault’s theoretical understanding of surveillance and the pastorate, the paper shows how technologies of power are used by church women to control how women attending these churches understand acts of violence perpetrated against them, to such an extent that they come to believe that it is part of their roles as women to be submissive to their husbands, even if these men abuse them.This research finds that women are silenced with technologies of power and are not given spaces in which to acknowledge, express or report the violence against themselves that they experienced or had seen other members in their church go through.
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- Authors: Frahm-Arp, Maria
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Zionist Christian Church , Grace Bible Church , Christianity , Women - Violence against
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/57864 , uj:16395 , Citation: Frahm-Arp, M. 2015. Surveillance and violence against women in Grace Bible Church and the Zionist Christian Church. Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa, 21(1):71-84. , ISSN:1025-5648
- Description: Abstract: South Africa (SA) has alarmingly high statistics showing that everyday millions of women experience violence perpetrated against them, yet few women report their abuse.Drawing on data from participant observation and interviews, this paper examines how a group of women in Grace Bible Church and the Zionist Christian Church understand experiences of violence against women and why they so often do not report abuse. Using Foucault’s theoretical understanding of surveillance and the pastorate, the paper shows how technologies of power are used by church women to control how women attending these churches understand acts of violence perpetrated against them, to such an extent that they come to believe that it is part of their roles as women to be submissive to their husbands, even if these men abuse them.This research finds that women are silenced with technologies of power and are not given spaces in which to acknowledge, express or report the violence against themselves that they experienced or had seen other members in their church go through.
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The political rhetoric in sermons and select social media in three Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelical churches leading up to the 2014 South African election
- Authors: Frahm-Arp, Maria
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Pentecostalism , Politics , Social media
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/69189 , uj:17830 , ISSN: 1011-7601 , Citation: Frahm-Arp, M. 2015. The political rhetoric in sermons and select social media in three Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelical churches leading up to the 2014 South African election. Journal for the Study of Religion, 28(1) : 115 - 141
- Description: Abstract: Over the last three decades Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelical (PCE) style churches have used cutting-edge media technologies in their ministry. They have also become increasingly politically engaged. This paper shows how three PCE churches in Gauteng used select social media sites, particularly YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp as well as sermons to explain what they believed a Christian’s role was in the 2014 elections. By analysing the messages of these churches on some social media sites and in pastor’s sermons the ideal of civic society and political engagement of these churches is brought to the fore. All three churches believed that Christians should be politically active, pray for the country’s leaders, vote in the elections and obey the rules of government. The churches had different political reasons for supporting democracy which ranged from seeing political engagement as a way to access government and municipal grants, to seeing themselves as the ‘chaplains’ to those in the highest offices of government and thus able to influence the way in which the country was governed.
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- Authors: Frahm-Arp, Maria
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Pentecostalism , Politics , Social media
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/69189 , uj:17830 , ISSN: 1011-7601 , Citation: Frahm-Arp, M. 2015. The political rhetoric in sermons and select social media in three Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelical churches leading up to the 2014 South African election. Journal for the Study of Religion, 28(1) : 115 - 141
- Description: Abstract: Over the last three decades Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelical (PCE) style churches have used cutting-edge media technologies in their ministry. They have also become increasingly politically engaged. This paper shows how three PCE churches in Gauteng used select social media sites, particularly YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp as well as sermons to explain what they believed a Christian’s role was in the 2014 elections. By analysing the messages of these churches on some social media sites and in pastor’s sermons the ideal of civic society and political engagement of these churches is brought to the fore. All three churches believed that Christians should be politically active, pray for the country’s leaders, vote in the elections and obey the rules of government. The churches had different political reasons for supporting democracy which ranged from seeing political engagement as a way to access government and municipal grants, to seeing themselves as the ‘chaplains’ to those in the highest offices of government and thus able to influence the way in which the country was governed.
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