Pentecostal historiography and postcolonialism: re-evaluations and re-interpretations
Marcin Rzepka
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.
Rzepka, M. (2017). Pentecostal historiography and postcolonialism: re-evaluations and re-interpretations. Theological Yearbook, 59(3), 527–548. Retrieved from https://ojs.chat.edu.pl/index.php/rt/article/view/133
polish
English