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Centre For Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies

Research Projects

Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in the UK: texts and contemporary trends
This research project funded by the British Academy in 2002 reported in August 2003. The objectives of the research were:

• to provide as full a description as possible of the Pentecostal and charismatic movement's institutional and geographical influence within the UK.
• to provide internationally key and core Pentecostal and charismatic texts to make them readily available to teachers within the fields of theology and cultural studies.

Click here to read about the address database produced as a result of this funding.

Apostolic Networks in England and Wales
This research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, began in autumn 2003. Against an intellectual and political background of opposing trends (for example, secularism and fundamentalism), the project investigates the 'new' churches in England and Wales by answering questions about their theological life-worlds, religious nature sociologically described, psychological profile and contemporary appeal. The 'new' churches are defined as those organised in 'apostolic networks' and include congregations of varying size and ethnicity.

The findings of the project are due to be reported in a book Apostolic Networks in the UK (Paternoster, 2007). Early results were, however, reported at the European Pentecostal Theological Association meeting in Germany in March/ April 2005. A copy of the paper can be obtained by emailing w.kay@bangor.ac.uk and heading the email 'epta paper'.

A further interim study is due to be presented at the SPS conference at Fuller in 2006.

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