Spirit(s) in Motion: Pentecostalism, Pluralism, and Everyday Life. (22nd March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Premawardhana, Devaka
• Is Part Of: PentecoStudies. Volume 17:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 37
• Page End: 53
• Publication Date: 2018-03-22
• Subjects: butinage -- brazil -- mozambique -- pentecostalism -- religious pluralism; Pentecostalism -- Periodicals; 270.8205
• DOI: 10.1558/ptcs.34762
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2041-3599

Abstract

Abstract : Despite its rituals of rupture and discourse of discontinuity, Pentecostalism does not always succeed in dislodging church participants from their pre-existing religious worlds. This paper connects the eclectic, everyday engagements of rank-and-file Pentecostals to a variety of concepts deployed in studies of religious pluralism (e.g. syncretism, hybridity, polyontology, bricolage, and especially the recently theorized butinage). Drawing on empirical evidence from Mozambique, while also glancing comparatively at Brazil, this paper aims to help open new questions regarding Pentecostal religious identity by arguing for the presence of pluralistic impulses within Pentecostalism itself.