New directions and connections for African and Asian Charismatics

Pneuma

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 69-77

  Hackett, Rosalind I J ^a  

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DOI: 10.1163/157007496X00065     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Funding for research leading to this publication was provided by the Research Enablement Program, a grant program for mission scholarship supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and administered by the Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
2. Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Religion in Calabar: the Religious Life and History of a Nigerian Town (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989).
3. Sometimes these movements are popularly referred to as "born-again churches" (such as in Malawi), see R. A. van Wijk, "Young Puritan Preachers in Post-Independence Malawi," Africa 62 (1992): 159-181. Matthews Ojo's work on the Charismatic churches in Nigeria is particularly informative in identifying their historical roots.
4. See Matthews A. Ojo, "The Growth of Campus Christianity and Charismatic Movements in Western Nigeria.," (Ph.D. dissertation; London, England: University of London, 1986), forthcoming as Charismatic Renewal in Nigeria (Edinburgh, Scotland: St. Andrews Press and Windows on Theology);
5. and Matthews A. Ojo, "The 1970 Charismatic Revival in Nigeria," Thelia (Nigeria) 3 (1990): 4-9.
6. See Rosalind I. J. Hackett, "The Symbolics of Power Discourse among Contemporary Religious Groups in West Africa," in Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change, ed. Luther Martin (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993), 381-409.
7. E.g., Paul Gifford, "Prosperity: A New and Foreign Element in African Christianity". Religion 20 (1990): 373-388.
8. Henry Ramaya, Arise Daughters of Sarah Arise (Malaysia: the author, 1991).
9. I was able to purchase copies of their sermons from the church bookstore: Dr. Nicholas Duncan Williams, "Take It Back from the Devil" and "How to Activate the Anointing" and Rev. Ayo Oritsejafor, "God Has a Way," (n.d., His Sanctuary Services, Golden Eagle Productions, Towner Road, P.O. Box 0218, Singapore 9132, fax:299 0616)
10. And This Gospel Shall Be Preached. the mission publication of the Calvary Charismatic Centre, Singapore, 1994, contains useful information on the extensive missionary operations of this Singapore-based church.
11. Charis Global Vision, monthly publication of Charis Global Vision (written by the founder, Rev. Dr. Daniel Agomo), Singapore (currently at Vol. 24, May 1995).
12. Dr. Paul Temile, Faith Dynamics: Developing Your Measure of Faith (Singapore: the author, 1995).
13. See John N. Vaughan, Absolutely Double! The Story of Miracles and Explosive Church Growth at Sung Rak Baptist Church, Seoul, Korea (Bolivar, MO: Megachurch Research Press, 1990) and (more generally on the Korean Charismatic/Pentecostal explosion)
14. David Martin, Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America (Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1990), 135-156.
15. Of his works available in English translation, I was able to obtain Ki Dong Kim, Theories of Church Growth (Seoul, Korea: Berea Press, 1986)
16. and Ki Dong Kim, Strategy for Church Growth (Seoul, Korea: Berea Press, 1991).
17. See Berea Newsletter International, their bimonthly English newsletter which contains useful church news and statistics.
18. John Nana Antoh, Pearls from Berea (Seoul, Korea: Berea Press, 1995).
19. See Rosalind I. J. Hackett, "The Gospel of Prosperity in West Africa," in Religion and the Transformations of Capitalism, ed. Richard H. Roberts (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), 199-214.