Pilgrims in the Port - The Identity of Migrant Christian Communities in Rotterdam

This publication investigates new ways of understanding international churches. Based upon recent fieldwork, six migrant Christian communities in Rotterdam were analysed using congregational study methods on how they construct identity. Through the frames of 'koinonia', 'diakonia' and 'kerygma', this research reflects on their composition, characteristics, leadership style, language and social capital. Language is found to be an important shaper or 'carrier' of identity and acts both as badge and bridge of identity. In building identity, MCCs do not behave in ways expected or consistent with the process of integration.

List of contents

Rotterdam - migration studies - group identity - koinonia - kerygma - leadership - diakonia - social activities

About the author

Robert Alasdair Calvert pastored three city congregations in Glasgow, Rotterdam and Dundee as a Church of Scotland minister. His researches on migrant Christian communities and lectures on urban ministry.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Calvert
• Assisted by: Martha Frederiks (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783631782637
• ISBN: 978-3-631-78263-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 31 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Illustrations: 2 Abb.
• Series: Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du chri; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du christianisme / Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity; Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d¿histoire interculturelle du christianisme / Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works