Browsing Research Publications (Religion & Theology) by Subject "Xenophobia"
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African Pentecostal churches and racialized xenophobia: International migrants as agents of transformational development?
(SAGE, 2022)Scholarship on Pentecostal potential and practice forms a significant part of the debate on religion and development, not least when the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in this debate African Pentecostal migrant communities ... -
Church, narrative, community and identity in times of migration
(AOSIS, 2020)Migration is perceived by many communities as a threat to national unity, social cohesion, nationality or common identity. This article is an attempt to address the following question: How does or should the church as a ... -
Language practices as religious Innovation: The case of Pentecostal charismatic churches in xenophobic contexts
(SAGE, 2021)In the authors’ recent case-study research of migrant-dominated Pentecostal charismatic churches (PCCs) in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, language emerged as a prominent feature of religious practice, ...