Pastoral Interventions During the Pandemic: Pentecostal Perspectives on Christian Ministry in South Africa

by Mookgo Solomon Kgatle (Editor), Collium Banda (Editor)

Overview

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the challenges faced by pastoral ministry in South African Pentecostalism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as some interventions being made to manage these challenges. Contributors present descriptive approaches to churches’ reactions to lockdown measures, and especially the adaptations generated within Pentecostalism in South Africa. Through a variety of approaches—including pastoral care, virtual ecclesiology, social media, and missiology—contributors offer intervention techniques which can help readers to understand the unique role of Christian ministry during the pandemic, in South Africa and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031080340
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/16/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	584 KB

About the Author

Mookgo Solomon Kgatle is Professor at the University of South Africa. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) Y Rated researcher (2019-2024) in the area of African Pentecostalism. Additionally, he is the visiting scholar at the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies-University of Birmingham (2020-2022) and founding President of the Southern African Society for Pentecostal Studies.

Collium Banda is extraordinary research fellow at North-West University, South Africa, and adjunct lecturer at the Theological College of Zimbabwe. He is an emerging researcher with interests in African Pentecostalism, Christian doctrines in the African public space, African traditional religions, African indigenous knowledge systems and Christianity in African contexts.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Pastoral ministry during COVID19 in South African Pentecostalism.- 2. Virtual ecclesiology in light of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in South Africa.- 3. The shutdown of Church services during COVID-19 in South Africa: a Social work perspective.- 4. Pentecostal pastoral calling and ministry in South Africa during COVID-19.- 5. Caring for grieving congregations due to the death of their pastors to COVID-19.- 6. The subtle benefit of social gathering and its prominence during hard Lockdown: a pastoral care approach.- 7. The use of social media during the spread COVID-19 in South Africa.- 8. The impact of Social media on the ‘Black’ church during COVID-19.- 9. Martin Luther’s hymn in the Global Pandemic of the 1520s: Pastoral ministry lessons for COVID-19.- Epilogue.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Not even the most imaginative novelist could have imagined the world created by the coronavirus pandemic. The face of the church also changed radically, challenging it to reinvent itself. In this volume, South African scholars meet these theological, practical, pastoral, liturgical, and institutional challenges from a Pentecostal perspective. They concentrate on the various dimensions of spirituality and pastoral care in the 'virtual church.' The work contributes to rethinking the 'new normal' of the post-Covid-19 church." (Marius Nel, Research Chair - Ecumenism: Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism, North West University, South Africa)

"A very relevant book! And another opportunity for people living in the North to learn from the South. The South African churches are doing a great job in the midst of a difficult economic situation." (Volker Kessler, Gesellschaft für Bildung und Forschung in Europa, Germany)

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