Gathered by the Word: Latin Pentecostal Migrant Congregations in the Nordic Countries
Migration from Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries has produced over two hundred Evangelical/Pentecostal congregations in the Nordic region during the early twenty-first century. These churches attract people of diverse backgrounds, demanding ongoing negotiations to keep their distinctive exis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Mission studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 412-432 |
| Further subjects: | B
Pentecostal congregations
B Pentecostalism B Nordics B migration hermeneutics B Latin American diaspora |
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| Summary: | Migration from Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries has produced over two hundred Evangelical/Pentecostal congregations in the Nordic region during the early twenty-first century. These churches attract people of diverse backgrounds, demanding ongoing negotiations to keep their distinctive existence. I argue that their existence is owed to shared interpretative practices of the Bible and migration experiences, shaping each other, and forming interpretive communities. Based on an ethnographic investigation, five significant themes characterize Latin congregations in the Nordics as interpretive communities, 1) family worship, 2) incubating churches, 3) intercultural families, 4) transnational connection, and 5) hermeneutics of prophecy. These close-knit, connected, and family-like congregations represent a form of migrant self-theologizing for a Christian witness in a pluralistic Nordic region. 21 世纪初，来自葡萄牙语和西班牙语国家的移民在北欧地区产生了 200 多个福音派/五旬节派教会。 这些教堂吸引了不同背景的人，要求不断协商以保持其独特的存在。 我认为他们的存在归功于对圣经和移民经历的共同诠释实践，相互塑造，并形成诠释群体。 根据民族志调查，五个重要主题将北欧的拉丁教会描述为诠释群体，1) 家庭敬拜，2) 孵化教会，3) 跨文化家庭，4) 跨国联系，以及 5) 先知性的诠释学。 这些紧密联系且像家庭一样的会众代表了多元化北欧地区基督徒见证的一种移民自我神学形态。 |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341907 |