Spirit(s) in Motion: Pentecostalism, Pluralism, and Everyday Life

Despite its rituals of rupture and discourse of discontinuity, Pentecostalism does not always succeed in dislodging church participants from their pre-existing religious worlds. This paper connects the eclectic, everyday engagements of rank-and-file Pentecostals to a variety of concepts deployed in...

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Published in:PentecoStudies
Main Author: Premawardhana, Devaka (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2018]
In: PentecoStudies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mozambique / Brazil / Pentecostal churches / Religious pluralism / Everyday life
IxTheo Classification:KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBR Latin America
KDG Free church
KDH Christian sects
NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit
Further subjects:B Christianity and African religions
B Spirits
B Pentecostals; Identity
B Peer reviewed
B Pentecostal churches; Africa
B Mozambique; Religion
B Syncretism
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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Summary:Despite its rituals of rupture and discourse of discontinuity, Pentecostalism does not always succeed in dislodging church participants from their pre-existing religious worlds. This paper connects the eclectic, everyday engagements of rank-and-file Pentecostals to a variety of concepts deployed in studies of religious pluralism (e.g. syncretism, hybridity, polyontology, bricolage, and especially the recently theorized butinage). Drawing on empirical evidence from Mozambique, while also glancing comparatively at Brazil, this paper aims to help open new questions regarding Pentecostal religious identity by arguing for the presence of pluralistic impulses within Pentecostalism itself.
ISSN:1871-7691
Contains:Enthalten in: PentecoStudies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/ptcs.34762