Wednesday 28 May 2008

Ranger

ten-country public opinion survey of global pentecostalism conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in 2006 found that nearly half or more of all Protestants interviewed in Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Nigeria, and Kenya were members of pentecostal churches, while more than a quarter of Protestants interviewed in South Africa, South Korea, Guatemala, and the Philippines were Protestant charismatics (i.e., people who identified with the pentecostal label or with pentecostal practice such as speaking in tongues but remained members of nonpentecostal churches). 1


TO Ranger, T Cruz e Silva, “Evangelicals and Democracy in Mozambique” in TO Ranger, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 161189


points to the UCKG spreading in Mocambique through the use of schoolrooms, cinemas and hotel conference rooms.2

1TS Shah, “Preface” in TO Ranger, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), i-xix, xi.

2TO Ranger, T Cruz e Silva, “Evangelicals and Democracy in Mozambique” in TO Ranger, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 161189, 163.

No comments: