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Religion & Spirituality

Refracting Structural Precarity: The Rise of the Zion Prayer Movement Outreach and Community Mobilisation

Onyewuchi Christopher Opara — University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Amaechi Goodwin Chukwuma Heart University of Port Harcourt

Contemporary scholarship has explained the remarkable growth of African Pentecostalism through prosperity theology, charismatic leadership, public religion, and the social consequences of economic insecurity. While these...

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Religion & Spirituality

African Christianity in the Digital Age: Virtual Sacred Spaces and the Renegotiation of Religious Belonging

Nsikak Effiong Okon — Department of Religious & Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Digital technologies have become part of everyday Christian life, but their growing influence continues to provoke debate about the nature of Christian presence and communal worship. As more churches move across physical...

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Religion & Spirituality

Beyond Divorce: Covenantal Ethics and Radical Interdependence in Contemporary Christian Marriage

Paul Adedotun Adesupo — Department of Christian Religious Studies, Faculty of Education, Emmanuel Alayande of Education, Oyo, Oyo State. Nigeria. · Vol. 33, No. 1 · 05 September 2026

Christian marriage continues to be framed theologically through covenant, yet it is increasingly practised within social environments marked by uncertainty, mobility, and structural precarity rather than stability and pe...

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Religion & Spirituality

Divided by Grace, United in Experience: Rethinking Jansenism for African Christianity Today

Eddy Azanor — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 07 January 2026

The seventeenth-century Jansenist controversy over grace and free will is often framed as a closed European Catholic episode. Yet, its theological questions—human agency, divine sovereignty, moral rigor, and institution...

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African Literature

Religious Competition and Urban Christianity: Mapping Denominational Switching in Port Harcourt Rivers State

Raphael Baribela Kpeden — University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Port Harcourt. · Vol. 31, No. 2 · 01 October 2025

Christianity in Nigeria has undergone rapid expansion, diversification, and fragmentation, with denominational switching emerging as a prominent feature of urban religious life. Contrary to expectations that modernizatio...

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