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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies of religion in Africa ; volume 48
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Studies on religion in Africa ; 48.
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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Figures; Swahili Glossary; Chapter 1 Introduction; Pentecostal Christianity in Africa; A Relational Approach; Fieldwork; Chapter 2 The Scene; The Swahili Coast, Zanzibar, and Struggles for Belonging; Uamsho: Islamic Awakening; Christianity in Zanzibar; Chapter 3 The Migrant; The Precarious Search for a Better Life; Becoming Saved; Salvation and the Good Life; Chapter 4 The Church; The Pastor; Spiritual Kin; A Vital Participation?; Chapter 5 The Public; The CCC Goes Public; Violence; The Quest to Make Public; Chapter 6 The Union |
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Pentecostal Approaches to the UnionChristianity, Islam, and the Secular Union; The Union and Religious Difference; Chapter 7 Narratives of Pentecostal (Non- )Belonging; Pentecostal Christianity as a Second Culture; Temporalities, Shifting Statuses, and the Impact of Mission; "Jesus for Zanzibar"; Bibliography; Interview List: Members of the City Christian Center; Other Interviews; Sermons; Cited Material; Index |
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In Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non- )Belonging, Islam, and Nation Hans Olsson offers an ethnographic account of the lived experience and socio-political significance of newly arriving Pentecostal Christians in the Muslim majority setting of Zanzibar. This work analyzes how a disputed political partnership between Zanzibar and Mainland Tanzania intersects with the construction of religious identities. Undertaken at a time of political tensions, the case study of Zanzibar's largest Pentecostal church, the City Christian Center, outlines religious belonging as relationally filtered in-between experiences of social insecurity, altered minority / majority positions, and spiritual powers. Hans Olsson shows that Pentecostal Christianity, as a signifier of (un)wanted social change, exemplifies contested processes of becoming in Zanzibar that capitalizes on, and creates meaning out of, religious difference and ambient political tensions. |
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Pentecostal churches -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar.
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Pentecostal churches. |
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Tanzania -- Zanzibar. |
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Pentecostals -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- Social conditions.
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Pentecostals. |
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Social conditions. |
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Pentecostalism -- Relations -- Islam.
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Pentecostalism. |
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Relations. |
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Islam. |
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Christianity and other religions -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar.
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Christianity and other religions. |
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Christianity. |
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Interfaith relations. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Olsson, Hans. Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non- )Belonging, Islam, and Nation. Boston : BRILL, ©2019 9789004406810 |
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9004410368 |
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9789004410367 (electronic book) |
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