LEADER 05326nam 22006255 450 001 9910595054003321 005 20230810175518.0 010 $a3-031-08034-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-08034-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7088301 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7088301 035 $a(CKB)24846062700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-08034-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924846062700041 100 $a20220916d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPastoral Interventions During the Pandemic $ePentecostal Perspectives on Christian Ministry in South Africa /$fedited by Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Collium Banda 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon Pastoral Interventions During the Pandemic Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031080333 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a?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 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. 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. 606 $aEvangelicalism 606 $aPentecostalism 606 $aChristianity and the social sciences 606 $aChristian sociology 606 $aAfrica$xReligion 606 $aEvangelicalism and Pentecostalism 606 $aSocial Scientific Studies of Christianity 606 $aAfrican Religions 615 0$aEvangelicalism. 615 0$aPentecostalism. 615 0$aChristianity and the social sciences. 615 0$aChristian sociology. 615 0$aAfrica$xReligion. 615 14$aEvangelicalism and Pentecostalism. 615 24$aSocial Scientific Studies of Christianity. 615 24$aAfrican Religions. 676 $a616.2414 676 $a289.940968 702 $aBanda$b Collium 702 $aKgatle$b Mookgo S. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910595054003321 996 $aPastoral Interventions During the Pandemic$92915800 997 $aUNINA