In the context of widening socio-economic inequalities, weakened state institutions, and growing conditions of global precarity, Nigerian Neo-Pentecostalism has emerged as a significant arena for negotiating religious au...
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...
Prof. Ndidi Justice Gbule — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Where access to public infrastructure is uneven or unreliable, religious institutions may become part of the arrangements through which everyday participation is sustained. In Nigeria, Pentecostal churches increasingly c...
Gloria Njideka Ayantayo — Ajayi Crowther University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
This study investigates the social costs and benefits of atonement
within Nigerian Christianity, focusing on Catholic, Aladura (Christ
Apostolic Church, CAC), and Pentecostal (Living Faith Church,
Winners’ Chapel) con...
Nsikak Effiong Okon — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 03 June 2026
John O. Obineche
Ben O. Onu
This article examines how prosperity theology shapes women’s religious agency within Assemblies of God churches in rural Rivers State, Nigeria. Rather than treating the prosperity gospel as either purely liberative or ex...
Nimi Wariboko — Boston University
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 07 January 2026
Bringing Richard Kearney’s anatheisti philosophy into conversation with Nimi Wariboko’s account of African Pentecostal praxis, the paper argues that Pentecostal spirituality harbors a radical theological grammar beneath...
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...
