African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe - The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century

Informationen zum Autor Annalisa Butticci is Marie Curie Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and Utrecht University. Klappentext Catholic Italy is a destination for migrants from Nigeria and Ghana, who bring their own form of Christianity¿Pentecostalism, the most Protestant of Christian faiths. At the heart of Annalisa Butticci¿s ethnography is a paradox. Believers on both sides are driven by a desire to find sensuous, material ways to make the divine visible and tangible. Zusammenfassung Catholic Italy is a destination for migrants from Nigeria and Ghana, who bring their own form of Christianity—Pentecostalism, the most Protestant of Christian faiths. At the heart of Annalisa Butticci’s ethnography is a paradox. Believers on both sides are driven by a desire to find sensuous, material ways to make the divine visible and tangible.

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• Authors: Annalisa Butticci
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780674737099
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73709-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, RELIGION / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Christianity, Philosophy of religion, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict