Between Babel and Pentecost

by Corten, Andre; Marshall-fratani, Ruth R.

• ISBN13: 9780253213785
• ISBN10: 0253213789
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"A great read for anyone wanting to thnk about how to interpret contemporary religious trends, and for those versed in Euro-American forms of Pentecostalism to consider how non-Western variations may challenge and expand the theoretical repertoire on the subject." -- Religious Studies Review"" -- African Studies ReviewOver the past two decades, Latin American and African societies have experienced the phenomenal growth of Pentecostal movements. This book examines the subject from different perspectives, taking into consideration the important transnational character of such movements and their tendency to foster identities which transcend the national and cultural context in which they begin.

Author Biography

Andre Corten is a Professor in the Departement de Sciences Politiques, Universite du Quebec +á Montr+¬al.

Ruth Marshall-Fratani is a Research Fellow in the Africa Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Table of Contents

The Co-Authors	ix
Introduction	1	(21)
Andre Corten
Ruth Marshall-Fratani
Part I. GENERAL
From Babel to Pentecost: A Social-Historical-Theological Study of the Growth of Pentecostalism	22	(19)
Waldo Cesar
The gathering speed of a religious phenomenon	24	(2)
From the transcendental to everyday life: between symbolism and reality	26	(1)
The world, space and time of Pentecostalism	27	(9)
Transnationalisation and the future of religions	36	(5)
Globalisation and Pentecostal Success	41	(21)
Andre Droogers
Some theoretical issues	41	(3)
Some common characteristics	44	(2)
Pentecostal diversity	46	(3)
Contextual factors	49	(2)
Globalisation	51	(3)
Globalisation and Pentecostal commonalty	54	(3)
Globalisation and Pentecostal diversity	57	(5)
The Complex Provenance of Some Elements of African Pentecostal Theology	62	(18)
Paul Gifford
Faith gospel	62	(3)
Deliverance	65	(9)
Christian Zionism	74	(6)
Mediating the Global and Local in Nigerian Pentecostalism	80	(26)
Ruth Marshall-Fratani
Introduction: transnationalism, the nation-state and the media	80	(4)
Conversion and agency: negotiating `local pasts' and `global modernities'	84	(7)
Mediatisation and `delocalisation'	91	(5)
Winning Nigeria for Jesus: the political mobilisation of identity	96	(10)
Transnationalised Religious Needs and Political Delegitimisation in Latin America	106	(18)
Andre Corten
Transnationalised religious needs	107	(4)
Political delegitimisation	111	(13)
Part II. THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA
Pentecostalism and Transnationalisation in the Caribbean	124	(18)
Laennec Hurbon
The constant progression of Pentecostalism	125	(1)
The loss of traditional symbolic references	126	(2)
The account of conversion: a new imaginary and symbolic field	128	(2)
The written, the image and the body	130	(2)
Pentecostalism and Afro-American religions	132	(3)
The place of the political	135	(3)
Pentecostalism as an intermediate space	138	(4)
Jamaican Pentecostalism: Transnational Relations and the Nation-State	142	(21)
Diane J. Austin-Broos
Jamaican Pentecostals as transnational religious	148	(8)
Indigenised religion and transnationalism	156	(2)
Pentecostal transnationalism and the state today	158	(5)
Pentecostalism, Market Logic and Religious Transnationalisation in Costa Rica	163	(18)
Jean-Pierre Bastian
From international to multilateral patterns	164	(5)
From importation to hybridity in the context of market logic	169	(6)
The media and networking	175	(6)
Brazilian Pentecostalism Crosses National Borders	181	(15)
Ari Pedro Oro
Pablo Seman
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and Brazilian and Argentine Pentecostalism	181	(3)
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Argentina	184	(1)
Institutional structure: a distinct way of being the church	185	(1)
Exorcism: variations, problems and products of translation	186	(4)
The Universal Church occupies an intermediate space between `magic' and `religion'	190	(1)
Deliverance and prosperity: from being well to well-being	191	(5)
Transnationalisation of Brazilian Pentecostalism: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God	196	(20)
Paul Freston
The globalisation of Pentecostalism	196	(2)
The global expansion of the UCKG	198	(5)
The UCKG in Portugal: a Luso-Brazilian church?	203	(5)
The UCKG in England: a black church?	208	(5)
Conclusion: Global perspectives of the Universal Church	213	(3)
Part III. AFRICA
Time and Transcultural Technologies of the Self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal Diaspora	216	(19)
Rijk van Dijk
Some dimensions of urban Pentecostalism in Ghana	219	(3)
Representing the diaspora	222	(2)
Transnational technologies of the self	224	(3)
Techniques within the Pentecostal technology of the self	227	(8)
The Quest for Missionaries: Transnationalism and Township Pentecostalism in Malawi	235	(21)
Harri Englund
Poverty and Pentecostalism in Chinsapo township	238	(4)
Missionaries and township Pentecostalism	242	(4)
`Children without a father': flows and blockages in township Pentecostalism	246	(10)
Transnationalisation and Local Transformations: The Example of the Church of Assemblies of God of Burkina Faso	256	(18)
Pierre Joseph Laurent
The Assemblies of God of Burkina Faso	257	(2)
Conversion to an imported modernity	259	(8)
The Assemblies of God as a multi-functional community of great sociality	267	(7)
The Expansion of Pentecostalism in Benin: Individual Rationales and Transnational Dynamics	274	(19)
Cedric Mayrargue
The growth of Pentecostalism in Benin	275	(1)
A context favourable to the growth of Pentecostal movements	276	(2)
The characteristics of Pentecostal expansion	278	(4)
The itineraries and motivations of the converted	282	(2)
The symbolic register of Pentecostalism: novelty, modernity, rupture, efficacy	284	(4)
Identity-building in Pentecostalism: individual rationales and transnational dynamics	288	(5)
The New Pentecostal Networks of Brazzaville	293	(16)
Elisabeth Dorier-Apprill
The genesis of `spiritual revival' in Congo	295	(2)
History of the Structuring of the Pentecostal field	297	(2)
Networks with differentiated profiles	299	(2)
An ethic based on consented acculaturation	301	(3)
Transnational networks	304	(5)
Index	309