Marie Tesárková Diplomová práce 2013 Abstract: This work contains a summary of history of Czech Pentecostal Church and of its musical impact on the society. The Conception of Musicians' in Czech Pentecostal Church utilizes surveys of other evangelical churches, that were executed by e-mail correspondence with their leaders. An on-line questionnaire for contemporary musicians of Czech Pentecostal Church became another ground for this work. Thus the proposal for a conception considers all aquired information, along with education plans of several Czech schools of Art and with education plans of American Central Bible college. Key words: Czech Pentecostal Church, musicians' education, evangelical churches, interdenominational events, conception if education

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-09-13T11:38:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alden Antonio de Araujo.pdf: 2493122 bytes, checksum: cb42aaaedd72e0b6c79bb3bc1f0f8c4c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-13T11:38:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alden Antonio de Araujo.pdf: 2493122 bytes, checksum: cb42aaaedd72e0b6c79bb3bc1f0f8c4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / The Pentecostal Church "God is Love", founded in 1962 by David Martins Miranda, consolidated in the Pentecostal area from the charisma of its founder-leader. Considering the idea of elective affinity, it is possible to affirm that the social, cultural, political, economic and, especially, religious context of the 1950s and 1960s favored the emergence of this charismatic leader and the formation of IPDA, which sought to consolidate in the Pentecostal area from Some identity marks proper to this church, its Internal Regulations, its World Headquarters, IPDA's option for the poorest, the restricted and selective use of the media, and the "War on Evil" worldview. These elements that constitute IPDA's identity are intended to contribute to the consolidation of David Miranda's charisma and strengthen the monopoly of its capital. From the death of the founder emerges the need to transmit the charism and a complex process of succession surrounded by tensions in regard to disputes over power / A Igreja Pentecostal “Deus é Amor”, fundada em 1962 por David Martins Miranda, se consolidou no campo pentecostal a partir do carisma de seu líder-fundador. Considerando a ideia de afinidade eletiva, é possível afirmar que o contexto social, cultural, político, econômico e, sobretudo, religioso dos anos 50 e 60 favoreceram o surgimento deste líder carismático e a formação da IPDA. Esta denominação buscou se consolidar no campo pentecostal a partir de algumas marcas identitárias propriamente características desta igreja: seu Regulamento Interno, sua Sede Mundial, a opção que a IPDA faz pelos mais pobres, o uso restrito e seletivo das mídias e a cosmovisão centrada na “Guerra contra o Mal”. Estes elementos, que constituem a identidade da IPDA, têm por finalidade contribuir com a consolidação do carisma de David Miranda e reforçar o monopólio de seu capital. A partir do falecimento do fundador, emerge a necessidade de transmissão do carisma e um complexo processo de sucessão cercado de tensões no que se refere a disputas pelo poder

Similar to other countries in southern Africa, the relationship between African Spiritual Churches and New Pentecostal Churches in Botswana has been characterized by considerable tension and mutual distrust. Although both movements highlight the third person of the Trinity, the Spirit of God, their followers view the world around them very differently. This study has investigated the relationship between these two types of churches by focusing on their efforts to produce unique ideologies of spiritual power in relation to the two major ideologies in the Botswana context, namely the reified Setswana worldview and the globalizing forces of Western modernity. In order to provide a careful analysis of the relationship between these movements, two churches from each group were chosen as representatives. The Hermon Church and Revelation Blessed Peace Church served as examples for the African Spiritual Churches, while Goodnews Ministries and Bible Life Ministries were the New Pentecostal subjects. Primary research methods included interviews with church leadership, questionnaires for members of each church and participant observation. Church origins, biblical hermeneutics, healing and deliverance rituals, and approaches to cultures and covenants formed the key areas of study. Creating unique “worlds of the Spirit” by means of innovative tactics, both types of churches seek to enable their followers to live well as they produce their contextualized ideologies of power. However, even though both movements lay claim to the Spirit of God as their source of power, the distinctive ideologies emerging from their sermons, technologies, rituals and symbols have brought them into conflict with one another. For African Spiritual Churches, the Spirit of God meets people in the midst of life’s struggles, providing healing and wholeness in all relationships. Their willingness to adopt certain elements of the reified Setswana worldview is a major issue in the conflict with New Pentecostal Churches. For New Pentecostals, the Spirit breaks all covenants made in the past, and empowers “born again” believers to succeed in a modern environment filled with opportunities and challenges. The key missiological concern of this study is to explore the unique efforts of these movements to contextualize the gospel message for Botswana. / Church Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D.Th. (Missiology)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:20:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Emilio zAMBON 1-103.pdf: 1374561 bytes, checksum: c0fc36b9f35cc8460540efd11ad0ba47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-05 / We endeavored to demonstrate that the Pentecostal Church God is Love PCGL has been a church in expansion for the last five decades. Our work indicates that PCGL chose radio and its own newspaper and magazines to divulge its activities. The study demonstrates that PCGL alienates itself from politics, does not give inte views to other radios, forbids the use of TV sets in homes and neither answers reporters nor scholars. On the one hand, based on our 11 years of experience in the PCGL, including five years as deacon, we reveal details that will provide subsidies to academic studies in general of nowadays Pentecostal phenomenon. On the other hand, by covering some areas not yet analyzed by the academy, we complement information that does not appear in David Martins de Miranda s autobiography, him being the founder of PCGL. Finally, we tried to identify the doctrines that characterize PCGL as well as its administrative processes. These denote a trend towards the professionalization of part of the Board of Directors in relation to the succession process. In terms of succession, we also analyzed the institution s reproduction , a process that until now is under the charisma of its founder who administers his church with all the characteristics of a family business, within the gradient sect/church. Our conclusions demonstrate that the strategies which fostered the expansion of PCGL are based on its radios stations, its big rallies, its proselytism and its fund raising efforts that together feed and support the growth of the Pentecostal Church God is Love .(AU) / Procuramos demonstrar que a Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor - IPDA é uma Igreja, em expansão nas últimas cinco décadas. Nossa Dissertação de Mestrado indica que a IPDA elegeu a mídia radiofônica, seu jornal e suas próprias revistas para divulgar suas atividades. O estudo demonstra que a IPDA é alheia à política, não dá entrevistas às demais rádios, proíbe o uso da televisão e não atende jornalistas nem pesquisadores. Com base em nossa experiência de 11 anos de atuação na Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor , incluindo cinco anos como diácono, resgatamos detalhes que fornecerão subsídios aos meios acadêmicos e aos pesquisadores dos fenômenos pentecostais da atualidade. Ao cobrir certo espaço ainda não pesquisado pela academia, complementamos, por outro lado, dados que não constam da autobiografia de David Martins de Miranda, fundador da IPDA. Por fim, procuramos identificar características doutrinárias da IPDA e dos seus processos administrativos, que denotam certa tendência de profissionalização de parte da equipe da diretoria no processo sucessório. Abordamos, ainda, a questão da reprodução da instituição, mantida até aqui debaixo do carisma de seu fundador que vem administrando sua Igreja com todas as características de uma empresa familiar, dentro de um gradiente seita/igreja. Nossas conclusões demonstram as estratégias que permitiram a expansão da IPDA alicerçada nas suas rádios, nas suas grandes concentrações, no seu apelo proselitista e na arrecadação de recursos, fatores que alimentam e suportam o crescimento da Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor .(AU)

The purpose of this study is to depict the entrance process into the Pentecostal church and compare it with three different models of the entrance process into religious organizations too se if there are any similarities. The purpose is also to see if there are any similarities between the informants in their entrance process, and which strengths and weaknesses the three models have, when utilized on the entrance process into the Pentecostal church. The results indicates that there are some similarities between the informant´s entrance process into the Pentecostal church, such as the contact the informants have with the Pentecostal church during their entrance process and the context the informant´s was situated in. There are also some similarities before joining, such as the engagement in religion and the longing after a community. The similarities with the three models indicate that they show most similarities with the model that John R. Rambo has created over the entrance process. The strength and weaknesses of the three models are varying, with all three models showing some strenghts and weaknesses. Some steps in the models could also be considered neutral, when compared to the entrance process into the Pentecostal church. One factor that contributes to the weaknesses of the models is the empiric material that the models are based on. / <p>Inga anmärkningar</p>

Many African Independent Churches emerged during the colonial era in central Kenya and western Nigeria. At times they were opposed by government officials and missionaries. Most scholars have limited the field of enquiry to the flash-points of this encounter, thereby emphasizing the relationship at its most severe. This study questions current assumptions about the encounter which have derived from these studies, arguing that both government and missionary officials in Kenya and Nigeria exhibited a broader range of perspectives and responses to African Independent Churches. To characterize them as mainly hostile to African Independent Churches is inaccurate. This study also explores the various encounters between African Independent Churches and African politicians, clergymen, and local citizens. While some scholars have discussed the positive role of Africans in encouraging the growth of independent Christianity, this study will discuss the history in greater depth and complexity. The investigation will show the importance of understanding the encounter on both a local and national level, and the relationships between the two. It is taken for granted that European officials had authority over African leaders, but in regard to this topic many Africans possessed a largely unrecognized ability to influence and shape European perceptions of new religious movements. Finally, this thesis will discuss how African Independent Churches sometimes provoked negative responses from others through confrontational missionary methods, caustic rhetoric, intimidation and even violence. These three themes resurface throughout the history of the encounter and illustrate how current assumptions can be reinterpreted. This thesis suggests the necessity of expanding the primary scholarly focuses, as well as altering the language and basic assumptions of the previous histories of the encounter.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:19:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SILVA, Wallace.pdf: 1422584 bytes, checksum: 7228c37a39018e146a606d8ac637d419 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The proposal of this study is to investigate the understanding of the role of the Church and its faithful in the world, according to the publications of the Pentecostal Church of Christ in Bra-zil (ICPB) and to interpret the results in dialogue with the social, cultural, economical, reli-gious and political context of Brazil at the time. As period we propose the years 1935-1986, which includes the time of ministry of the founders, Horace and Carolyn Ward, Chester and Rachel Miller and Annie and Russel Frew, from the United States; the time of Ernst Grimm, an Estonian preacher; and the time of José Pinto de Oliveira, the first Brazilian elected general superintendent. The emphasis in these personalities also becomes plausible as they have been during the timespan under investigation the main church writers or authors of the texts to be interpreted in this work. The hypothesis of this work is that a growing awareness for social is-sues can be related to the rise of a Brazilian leadership. Although this dynamic is interrupted with the emergence of the military dictatorship in 1964, it is resumed in the late seventies of the last century. As method we propose to analyze the theological and doctrinal teaching found in official publications of the ICPB, such as their official journals, Brazilian and Ameri-can, its book editions, Sunday School material, minutes of its general conventions and books and notes or drafts written by the pioneers above mentioned. We conclude that the theologies and context analyzes found in the publications, justify a more diverse understanding: first, it can be shown, in religious and political terms, that existed a greater proximity between the views expressed by the authors and more conservative (or even reactionary) currents of the country. On the other hand, we identified aside of this dominant discourse a dissonant ap-proach with the potential to serve as a starting point for a more significant engagement in the society by the ICPB and its membership, including the denunciation of socioeconomic injus-tice, and that the respective discourses are pronounced more among national leaders. / O objetivo desse trabalho é investigar a compreensão do papel da Igreja e do fiel no mundo segundo as publicações da Igreja de Cristo Pentecostal no Brasil (ICPB) e interpreta os resul-tados em diálogo com o contexto social, cultural, econômico, político e religioso do Brasil da época. Como recorte temporal propõem-se os anos 1934-1986, o que contempla a época da chegada dos/as fundadores/as, Horace e Carolyn Ward, Chester e Rachel Miller e Annie e Russel Frew, vindos dos Estados Unidos; a época de Ernst Grimm, um pregador estoniano; e a época de José Pinto de Oliveira, primeiro brasileiro eleito superintendente geral. A ênfase nestas personalidades se torna também plausível por serem durante este tempo os principais escritores da igreja, autores e autoras dos textos a serem interpretados neste trabalho. A hipó-tese desse trabalho é que, paralelo à ascensão da liderança brasileira, ocorre uma crescente sen-sibilização para questões sociais, apesar de que esta dinâmica seja interrompida com o surgi-mento da ditadura militar a partir de 1964, mas, retomada já na década setenta do século pas-sado. Como método propõe-se a analisar o ensino teológico-doutrinário encontrado em publi-cações oficiais da ICPB, tais como os seus jornais oficiais, brasileiro e estadunidense, as suas edições da revista da Escola Dominical, as suas atas de convenções gerais, bem como livros e anotações e rascunhos de autoria dos/as pioneiros/as acima mencionados/as. Conclua-se que as teologias e análises do contexto encontradas nas publicações, justificam uma compreensão mais diversificada: por um lado, evidencia-se, em termos religiosos e políticos, uma maior pro-ximidade entre as posições defendidas pelos autores e as correntes mais conservadoras (ou até reacionárias) do país. Por outro lado, transparecem ao lado desse discurso dominante aborda-gens dissonantes e com o potencial de servirem de ponto de partida para uma atuação da ICPB e da sua membresia mais relevante na sociedade, inclusive a denuncia da injustiça socio-econômica, e que estes respectivos discursos são encontrados mais entre lideranças nacionais.

Summaries in German and English / Diese theologisch-empirische Studie befasst sich mit einem ganzheitlichen Verständnis von Mission im pfingstlich-charismatischen Kontext und besteht aus zwei Untersuchungen. In der ersten wird Literatur zum Paradigma ganzheitlicher Mission und zur Pfingstbewegung missionstheologisch erforscht. Die zweite Untersuchung baut auf der Literaturanalyse auf und bezieht sich exemplarisch auf eine pfingstliche Freikirche aus der Schweiz namens BewegungPlus. Mithilfe von offiziellen Dokumenten der Bewegung und ihres internationalen Zweigs, wie auch in Interviewaussagen leitender Personen von Lokalkirchen der Bewegung, wurde das Missionsverständnis untersucht. Die Auswertung der Interviews orientierte sich methodisch an der Grounded Theory. Aus den Resultaten beider Untersuchungen wurden thesenartige Schlussfolgerungen gezogen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der missionstheologische Paradigmenwechsel im pfingstlichcharismatischen Kontext rezipiert wird. Die Integration pfingstlicher und ganzheitlicher Mission ist am Beispiel der BewegungPlus zu beobachten, vor allem, wenn Mission und Eschatologie in einer Reich-Gottes-Theologie verbunden sind. Der im Rahmen dieser Arbeit erfolgte Beitrag aus pfingstlich-charismatischer Perspektive kann die aktuelle Missionsdiskussion erweitern. / This empirical theological study dealing with a holistic understanding of mission in an pentecostal context contains two studies. The first investigates literature focused on the paradigm of holistic mission and the Pentecostal Mission. The second study based on this literature analysis refers to an example of a pentecostal Church in Switzerland named „BewegungPlus“. The understanding of mission was investigated by examining official documents of the movement and by taking interviews with leading members of local churches. The evaluation of the interviews was methodologically based on the Grounded Theory. From the results of both studies theses-like conclusions were drawn. The results show that the mission theological paradigm shift is received in the pentecostal-charismatic context. In „BewegungPlus“ you can see the integration of both pentecostal and holistic mission especially when mission and eschatology are connected to a Kingdom of God theology. The pentecostal-charismatic perspective seen in this theses may contribute to the contemporary missional discussion. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th.(Missiology)

The first indentured Indians arrived in South Africa in 1860. Their importation was a consequence of the British, who wanted cheap labour from their colony, India, to serve the Empire’s needs in South Africa. Several of these Indians, upon completion of their term of their indenture, chose South Africa as their new ‘motherland’. They settled in Durban and its surroundings with some migrating inland. Consequently, the largest community of Indians in South Africa is still located in the Durban area. Indian communities globally show clear socio-economic development coupled with a strong association to religion and worship. The South African Indian diaspora is no different. Religion is deeply embedded in the fabric of this community. Rooted within most Indian religious practices are strong ties with music. The immigrants who arrived in South Africa shared common religious associations with India, the major religions being Hinduism, Islam and Christianity. Christianity in South Africa includes established and mainline church denominations such as Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Pentecostal movement. The Pentecostal movement includes the Full Gospel Church of God, Assemblies of God and Apostolic Faith Missions. Music, a subsidiary to worship within the Pentecostal church movement, provides certain unique dimensions to the religious service as opposed to the traditional repertoire and instrumentation (hymns being sung with organ accompaniment) of the mainline churches. To date, little is known about the music education, performance practice and music praxis in these churches. The lack of data on the latter provides the basis for this current investigation into Church Music praxis within the Pentecostal movement. A mixed method research approach which integrates both the qualitative as well as quantitative is adopted for this study. This approach allows for greater insight into the target population and their phenomena. The qualitative phase which consisted of informal structured interviews and a review of literature, provided in-depth knowledge and thematic data that informed the quantitative phase. The sample population used in the quantitative phase draws on six of the largest churches in the predominantly Indian areas of Durban. A questionnaire was developed specifically for this study, submitted for review to an expert, and administered to the sampled population. The results were coded and entered into a statistics database (SPSS) for analysis. Findings suggest that there is a unique stylistic development and performance tradition within these churches. Results reveal that the majority of Pentecostal church musicians in the Durban area have no formal training in music, yet are able to function as musicians within their congregations. Many musicians indicated their inability to read music as their greatest challenge. Consequently, this led to a great deal of time being spent on learning music. In almost all of the latter cases this occurred either autodidactally, communally and/or simply aurally. Musicians also indicated that financial difficulties were a setback, in that several were unable to purchase instruments and the necessary equipment to engage with their core music functions within the church. Many relied heavily on church support to assist with this need. These musicians possess an ability to perform technically and musically challenging music repertoire that demands advanced music skills and knowledge. This phenomenon attests to the power of informal music education. Many of these musicians go on to pursue successful careers as musicians and music educators. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / D. Litt. et Phil.