Pentecostal historiography and postcolonialism: re-evaluations and re-interpretations Cover Image

Historiografi a pentekostalna i postkolonializm: przewartościowania i reinterpretacje
Pentecostal historiography and postcolonialism: re-evaluations and re-interpretations

Author(s): Marcin Rzepka
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Other Christian Denominations
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe ChAT
Keywords: Pentecostalism; Christianity; historiography; history; missions; Postcolonialism

Summary/Abstract: The dynamic development of the Pentecostal Christianity especially in societies that experienced colonial domination and dependencies, evokes necessity to re-evaluate and re-interpret its origin and history. The article resenting tendency and changes in the Pentecostal historiography argues that today’s historical writings concentrate on its global dimension. Global perspective, paradoxically, makes it necessity to take into account a variety of independent, local and grassroots histories of the movement, revealing its dependence on postcolonial theory. Th e postcolonial approach seems to dominate in works of the present historians of the Pentecostal movement.

  • Issue Year: 59/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 527-548
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish