A nation 'sold to the enemy': Zambian Pentecostalism and Kaunda's humanism

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Kaunda, C.J. (2017) A nation sold to the enemy: Zambian Pentecostalism and Kaundas humanism. Theologia Viatorum: Journal of Theology and Religion in Africa. 41(2):49-80. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12047 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12047

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Abstract:
Drawing on the interviews conducted with over 50 Pentecostals in various Pentecostal congregations, the article argues that Zambian Pentecostalism did not reject Kaunda���s humanism but its spiritual source of knowledge. It demonstrates that Zambian Pentecostals believe that all knowledge has spiritual source and life-giving knowledge comes from God who is the Ultimate source of all truth. In order to dethrone what was perceived as negative spiritual source of Kaunda���s humanism, Pentecostalism sought to declare Zambia as a Christian nation in order to anchor socio-political and economic epistemologies of the nation into God through Christ.
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06 Apr 2018
 
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