“THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE
This article argues that African Neo-Pentecostalism has adopted indigenous notions of sacred authority through the paradigm of modernisation. Employing Rev. Timothy Omotoso’s case study on sexualisation and gendered exploitation of women and girls in South Africa, the article illustrates that the i...
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This article argues that African Neo-Pentecostalism has adopted indigenous notions of sacred authority through the paradigm of modernisation. Employing Rev. Timothy Omotoso’s case study on sexualisation and gendered exploitation of women and girls in South Africa, the article illustrates that the impact of modernisation is more evident in the individualised, fragmented and fundamentalised way in which Neo-Pentecostalism has resourced indigenous sacred authority. The article proposes emptied sacred authority as life-affirming and the recovery of holistic imaginations, whereby the pastor becomes a symbolic instrument of a kenotic life.
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| spelling | doaj-art-4f0598da674e422abde8b15d24ff08792025-02-11T09:45:12ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Theologica1015-87582309-90892020-12-0140210.38140/at.v40i2.4987“THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCEC.J. Kaunda0Yonsei University This article argues that African Neo-Pentecostalism has adopted indigenous notions of sacred authority through the paradigm of modernisation. Employing Rev. Timothy Omotoso’s case study on sexualisation and gendered exploitation of women and girls in South Africa, the article illustrates that the impact of modernisation is more evident in the individualised, fragmented and fundamentalised way in which Neo-Pentecostalism has resourced indigenous sacred authority. The article proposes emptied sacred authority as life-affirming and the recovery of holistic imaginations, whereby the pastor becomes a symbolic instrument of a kenotic life. https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/4987African Neo-PentecostalismRev. Timothy OmotosoModernization of sacred authorityKenosis |
| spellingShingle | C.J. Kaunda “THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE Acta Theologica African Neo-Pentecostalism Rev. Timothy Omotoso Modernization of sacred authority Kenosis |
| title | “THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE |
| title_full | “THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE |
| title_fullStr | “THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE |
| title_full_unstemmed | “THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE |
| title_short | “THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE |
| title_sort | the emptied authority african neo pentecostalism modernisation of sacred authority and gendered and sexualised constructions of violence |
| topic | African Neo-Pentecostalism Rev. Timothy Omotoso Modernization of sacred authority Kenosis |
| url | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/4987 |
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