RELIGION / Christianity / Seventh-Day Adventist

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Despite the remarkable growth of Christianity across sub-Saharan Africa, beliefs concerning witchcraft and spiritual causality continue to shape the lived experiences of many Christians. Within rural African communities, illness, unexplained deaths, infertility, poverty, and persistent misfortune are frequently interpreted through cosmological frameworks that recognize the active influence of supernatural forces. Th…

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Christian denomination

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The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath; its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ; and its annihilationist soteriology. The denomination grew out of the Millerite movement in the United States during the…

Book · DOAB

This volume examines the history of racial policies in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

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JoAn Gilmore-Jackson is a Pueblo-based gospel singer and church pianist. She discusses her childhood in Arkansas and her family's relocation to Pueblo for her father's work. Her father eventually became a pastor and she began her musical activity in church at a young age. She eventually went on to train other local gospel singers, such as Kennedy Pugh. Additionally, she discusses the history of Pueblo black communit…