Leveraging the Deliverance Phenomenon: Penteco/Charismatic Vista

Asamoah, Moses Kumi

doi:10.1007/s10943-016-0209-8

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“…Asamoah-Gyadu (2015:24) explains that when medical diagnosis and treatment fails, Pentecostals are quick to interpret the ailment or any sickness as being caused by a spiritual problem, which will then call for divine healing. Hence, there is a strong element of the supernatural in Pentecostalism for both the diagnosis and the healing of diseases (Asamoah-Gyadu 2016:1646. This type of healing according to Haustein (2011:538) includes 'words of knowledge describing the presence of people with medical or psychological symptoms of possessions, such as headaches, excessive worries, or lack of sleep'.…”

Section: The Traditional Practices Of Deliverancementioning

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‘Go deeper papa, prophesy, do something’: The popularity and commercialisation of prophetic deliverance in African Pentecostalism

Kgatle

2022

Verbum et Ecclesia

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Traditionally, the ministry of deliverance in African Pentecostalism involves the deliverance from generational curses, deliverance as spiritual warfare against witchcraft and other demonic forces and deliverance for healing. Most scholars have already covered the traditional practices of the ministry of deliverance. In this article what is new is the study of deliverance ministry within New Prophetic Churches (NPCs) in South Africa, which the article argues that it is different from the traditional practices. The deliverance ministry among the NPCs is a prophetic dimension that involves the consultation with the prophet to receive freedom from one’s predicaments. This dimension of deliverance raises a challenge of commercialisation within the practice of deliverance in Africa. To deal with the commercialisation of the ministry of deliverance, NPC pastors should heed the call of Jesus in Matthew 10:8 to give freely as they have received freely.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Jesus’ call for his disciples to minister freely to the needs of the people in the New Testament is juxtaposed with the missiological approaches on the commercialisation of religion in the context of the ministry of deliverance within NPCs such as Enlightened Christian Gathering in South Africa.

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Section: The Traditional Practices Of Deliverancementioning

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‘Go deeper papa, prophesy, do something’: The popularity and commercialisation of prophetic deliverance in African Pentecostalism

Kgatle

2022

Verbum et Ecclesia

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“…Subsequently, the means by which they contribute in mental healthcare delivery is by casting out the demons underlining the illness, providing material support and health education to their patients. Asamoah (2016) employing interview and participant observation strategies as well as case study and ethnography designs, conducted a study into the 'deliverance' concept within Classical Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism against historical and contemporary considerations. He found that, churches play much role in contributing to mental healthcare delivery in the health industry.…”

Section: Religious Faith Healers and Mental Healthcare Deliverymentioning

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Reviewing the Common Barriers to the Mental Healthcare Delivery in Africa

Essien

Asamoah

2020

J Relig Health

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The current paper sought to thematically present common challenges associated with mental healthcare services in Africa. We largely limited our search for literature materials to studies published from 2003 to 2019 in African countries from which the findings showed that there are common challenges confronting mental healthcare services in Africa. The challenges include: inadequate mental healthcare facilities, funding constraints, shortage of professional healthcare workers, inadequate training and development scheme for mental health workers and weak mental healthcare policies. Implications for policy and practice are disclosed and recommendations are stated to trigger actions to remedy the situation. This information is beneficial for researchers, policymakers, mental healthcare providers and community members who are interested in mental healthcare issues. It was concluded that in order for Africa to enjoy successful mental healthcare service, critical and enduring attention must focus on sound and enforceable government policy on mental healthcare service, provision of adequate and regular funding, availability of adequate mental healthcare facilities, provision of training and development facilities for the mental health professionals and collaboration of mental healthcare providers.

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“…By way of illustration, research has shown that the extent to which religious leaders endorse secular intervention seems to be associated with the help-seeking behaviours of their congregations ( Cook and Hamley, 2020 ). This is important since whilst seeking religious social support may be helpful for some individuals, encouraging others with mental health difficulties to pursue exclusively spiritual interventions may be ineffective and at worse detrimental ( Mercer, 2013 ; Asamoah, 2016 ). For example, encouraging evangelical Christians with mental health concerns to engage in frequent prayer as a form of treatment has the potential to prolong their distress if evidence-based interventions are not pursued in a timely manner ( Keefe and Curtin, 2013 ; Lloyd, 2021a ).…”

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“His Main Problem Was Not Being in a Relationship With God”: Perceptions of Depression, Help-Seeking, and Treatment in Evangelical Christianity

2022

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Some Christian communities may understand mental illness as the result of spiritual causes, such as sin, demons, or a lack of faith. Such perceptions are likely to influence how Christian individuals conceptualise and experience their mental health and enact help-seeking behaviours. This study explores perceptions of depression and mental health help-seeking in evangelical Christianity by using a novel qualitative story completion task. A convenience sample of 110 Christian participants from the United Kingdom completed a third-person, fictional story stem featuring a male with depression who entered his local church. A contextualist-informed thematic analysis illustrated how the disclosure of depression was represented as eliciting negative social reactions, potentially rendering individuals with depression as socially dislocated. Stories suggested that, increasingly, evangelical Christians may perceive a spiritualisation of mental illness, which negates reference to psychological, social, and biomedical representations, as unhelpful. Findings reveal the risks of a solely spiritual aetiology of depression and highlight how existing mental ill-health can be exacerbated if fundamentalist beliefs and approaches to therapeutic care are prioritised over holistic models of care. Methodologically, this study demonstrates the value of a rarely-used tool in psychology—the story completion task—for examining socio-cultural discourses and dominant meanings surrounding stigmatised topics or populations.

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Leveraging the Deliverance Phenomenon: Penteco/Charismatic Vista

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

‘Go deeper papa, prophesy, do something’: The popularity and commercialisation of prophetic deliverance in African Pentecostalism

‘Go deeper papa, prophesy, do something’: The popularity and commercialisation of prophetic deliverance in African Pentecostalism

Reviewing the Common Barriers to the Mental Healthcare Delivery in Africa

“His Main Problem Was Not Being in a Relationship With God”: Perceptions of Depression, Help-Seeking, and Treatment in Evangelical Christianity

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