Evangelical Gypsies in Spain
"The Bible is our Promised Land"
Evangelical Gypsies in Spain
"The Bible is our Promised Land"
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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781498580939
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 26/08/2020
Width: 16 cm
Height: 23.3 cm
The conversion of Spanish Roma to Pentecostal Evangelical Protestantism is one of the most unknown yet important religious movements of the past century. Its current transnational extension and its spectacular boom are due, among others factors, to the fact that it is directed, organized and composed of gypsies. This volume provides an important historical, theological, and ethnographic account of the Pentecostal Revival movement that has been sweeping through the Southern European Roma/Gypsy communities of France and Spain especially. Written by Manuela Cantón-Delgado, an anthropologist from the University of Seville, together with three others collaborators, it is a fascinating and careful account of the social impact of this movement in contemporary Europe. As such, it represents one of the first serious analyses of a religious, ethnic and political movement largely unknown in North American, to be made available in English.
The big questions about the emerging field of world Christianity are explored in this focused study of a trans-Andalusian ethnic group that sets in relief how evangelical and pentecostal-type converts are bringing their indigenous cultural traditions into late modernity. Here ethnographic thickness and social scientific analysis are mutually illuminating windows into the mysteries of charismatic transformation at the dawn of the third millennium. -- Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission and Dean, School of Theology & School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Seminary
