The use of anointed products during Covid-19 lockdown: An African Pentecostal spirituality experience
kgatle, mookgo solomon
The use of anointed products such as anointing oil and anointing water within the broader
Pentecostal movement in world Christianity has been documented in previous studies.
Traditionally, the demand for these products is based on the quest to receive healing and
deliverance from sicknesses, barrenness, witchcraft, and so forth. The products are also used
to access job placement, promotion, a house, a car, and other material possessions. This
paper worked within African Pentecostal spirituality of experience to explore the use of
anointed products during Covid-19 lockdown. Regardless of many perceptions and
misconceptions about the anointed products, they were used as a point of contact during the
Covid-19 lockdown. The paper used Apostle Mohlala Ministries in Cape Town, South Africa
as a case study to explore the use of these products during Covid-19 lockdown. The argument
in this paper is that these products were used as a substitute for spiritual service during the
Covid-19 lockdown. In other words, anointed products became a point of contact when
members of these ministries could not meet physically during the Covid-19 lockdown. This
changes how Pentecostal scholars study anointed products within the broader Pentecostal
movement. Despite their challenges such as commercialization and other abuses, anointed
products become a point of contact in Pentecostal spirituality of experience. For the believers
that could not attend church during the Covid-19 lockdown, anointed products became a
medium to connect spiritually.
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