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  1. Research

    Church or Cult? How to Recognise Spiritual Abuse and Leave

    Church or cult? Self-styled apostles and prophets, spiritual abuse: 24 sourced questions to recognise control, talk about it and get out.

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    Sending Evil Back to the Sender. The “Back to Sender” Prayers of African Spiritual Warfare Put to the Test of the Bible

    An investigation into the so-called Back to Sender prayers, their origin, social effects, and what Scripture teaches about divine vengeance.

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    The pineal gland is not a spiritual “third eye."

    An article distinguishes between established physiological facts and controversial hypotheses about endogenous DMT and their theological interpretation.

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    Christianisme charismatique africain et poids des ancêtres

    Entre rupture proclamée et croyances persistantes, le pentecôtisme africain repense son rapport aux cosmologies héritées.

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    A critical genealogy traces a century of charismatic movements

    From 1906 to the present, the study distinguishes between Pentecostalism, the charismatic renewal, and African prophetic movements without conflating them.

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    When the Body Slips Out of Control in Charismatic Cults

    Ritual tremors and falls find an anthropological parallel in kundalini and possession, without erasing the theological differences

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    Mami Wata Sirens and Water Spirits in African and Diasporic Charismatic Churches

    The figure of Mami Wata and of water spirits runs through the art, folklore, and cults of Atlantic Africa before becoming, in certain revival milieus, an operator of demonic diagnosis. This article traces that trajectory, distinguishes documented facts from allegations, and proposes a Protestant framework of…

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    Prophetic Authority Without Checks and Balances in New Prophetic Churches in Africa

    Over the past two decades, a strand of African neo-Pentecostalism, often labelled New Prophetic Churches (NPC) or neo-prophetism, has concentrated spiritual authority in the person of a media-facing prophet little constrained by ecclesial safeguards. Drawing on peer-reviewed theological and sociological literature,…