Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism A Pentecostal Political Theology in Postcolonial Africa

“Solomon Kgatle offers an engaging and expansive theologization of the politics in South Africa. He explores political theology through the innovative lens of prophecy, the connection between leading prophets and powerful politicians, and the nexus between the prophetic imagination and political pra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part 1 Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism
  • 2 Historical dimensions of prophecy and politics in South African Pentecostalism
  • 3 The practice of prophecy in contemporary Pentecostalism
  • 4 Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and politics
  • 5 Other contemporary prophets and politics in South Africa
  • 6 Problematising the intersectionality of prophecy and politics in post-colonial Africa
  • Part 2 Development of a Pentecostal political theology of prophecy
  • 7 Pentecostal prophetic imagination in post-colonial Africa
  • 8 Pneumatological imagination: A Pentecostal approach to the political theology of prophecy
  • 9 Pentecostal political theology of sovereignty in post-colonial Africa
  • 10 Towards a Pentecostal political theology of prophecy in post-colonial Africa