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

Butticci, Annalisa

African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe : The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century / Annalisa Butticci. - 1 online resource (186 p.) : 2 halftones

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. African Pentecostalism in the Storm -- 2. Contact Zones and Religious Short Circuits -- 3. Holy Bones -- 4. Afro-Pentecostal Renaissance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780674737099 9780674968660

10.4159/9780674968660 doi


Blacks--Religious life and customs.--Italy
Ghanaians--Religion.--Italy
Immigrants--Italy.
Nigerians--Religion.--Italy
Pentecostal churches--Relations--Catholic Church.
Pentecostalism--Italy.
Religion and sociology--Italy.
RELIGION / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic.

BX8764.2 / .B88 2016

289.9/408996045