Historically, Black Pentecostal-charismatic churches have not put an emphasis on political issues. That may be changing, a scholar of Black Christianity explains.
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Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Assistant Professor of Religion, Amherst College
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor of Political Science as well as Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor, Iowa State University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Religion Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Black Studies, Allegheny College