Evangelical Gypsies in Spain - 'The Bible Is Our Promised Land'

The conversion of Spanish Roma to Pentecostal Evangelical Protestantism is one of the most unknown yet important modern religious movements. Its current spectacular transnational growth is due, among others factors, to the fact that it is directed, organized, and composed of Gypsies. This book provides one of the first serious analyses of an important historical, theological, and ethnographic account of the Pentecostal Revival movement that has been sweeping through the Southern European Roma/Gypsy.

List of contents

Prologues

Prologue to the Spanish Edition (2004), Dr. Teresa San Roman................

Author's Prologue to the Spanish Edition (2004)..................................

Editor's Prologue to the English Edition (2019)...................................



Acknowledgments.............................................................................

Chapters

1.Lower Andalusia Gypsies: Margins, Stigmas and History

2.The Origins of Gypsy Protestantism

3.The Philadelphia Evangelical Church: Formal Aspects, Representations,

and Practices

4.Catholic and Protestant Gypsies in Jerez de la Frontera:

An exchange of glances

5."These Gypsies have become Priests?": A Polyphonic History of

The First Conversions of Andalusian Gypsies

6.The God of the Markets: Gypsy Evangelism and Itinerant Commerce

7.Detoxification Centers and Healing Practices

8.Methodological Processes: Ethnography

9.Theoretical Digression: Contemporary Secularization and Emerging Religions

10.Conclusions to the Spanish Edition (2004)

11.Almost Fifteen Years Later...(2019)



Afterword of a Gypsy Pastor.......................................

Bibliography...........................................................

About the Contributors

About the author

Manuela Cantón-Delgado is currently a professor in the department of social anthropology at the University of Seville.



Daniel Smith-Christopher is professor of Old Testament at Loyola Marymount University.

Summary

This book is a careful and nuanced analysis of the social, economic, therapeutic and cultural impact of the Pentecostal Revival movements on many Roma/Gypsy communities in southern Spain.

Product details

• Authors: Manuela Canton-Delgado, Manuela Cantón-Delgado, Cantón-Delgado Manuela
• Assisted by: Daniel Smith-Christopher (Editor), Daniel L. Smith-Christopher (Editor), Smith-Christopher Daniel L. (Editor), Teresa San Román (Prologue), Melchor Pisa Borja (Afterword), Marisol Gayton-Escobar (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781498580939
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8093-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Assisted by: Cristina Marcos Montiel, Salvador Medina Baena, Ignacio Mena Cabezas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, Spain, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, RELIGION / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, Christian mission & evangelism, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, Pentecostal or Charismatic Churches