Pentecostalism as Cultural Resistance: Music and Tongue-speaking as Collective Response in a Brooklyn Church
Based on ethnographic research in an Afro-Caribbean Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, this article focuses on Pentecostal music and tongue-speaking as a form of cultural resistance. At least in urban settings, Pentecostalism is a creative cultural response to collectively experienced structural proble...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
[2017]
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| In: |
PentecoStudies
Year: 2017, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 216-242 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brooklyn, NY
/ Caribbean immigrant
/ Blacks
/ Afro-American syncretism
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Glossolaly
/ Cultural identity
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America KBR Latin America KDG Free church KDH Christian sects NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit |
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Pentecostalism
culture
spiritual capital
power
tonguespeaking
Afro-Caribbean religion
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| Summary: | Based on ethnographic research in an Afro-Caribbean Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, this article focuses on Pentecostal music and tongue-speaking as a form of cultural resistance. At least in urban settings, Pentecostalism is a creative cultural response to collectively experienced structural problems. Scholars have demonstrated the institutional challenges for Pentecostalism including its moderating effect on tongue-speaking. This article explores how one congregation maintains vitality through the practice of speaking in tongues, music, and prayer, as a type of spiritual capital. Spiritual capital explains how Pentecostalism provides a unique form of power for members to show their own agency and resistance to institutionalization as well as structural subordination. This analysis provides a framework for understanding music, charisma, and religious vitality in a Pentecostal congregation and its relationship with the larger cultural context. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-7691 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: PentecoStudies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/ptcs.32822 |