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Going for god : mobility, place and temporality among evangelical guineans in Lisbon
| dc.contributor.advisor | Vasconcelos, João | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Sarró, Ramon | |
| dc.contributor.author | Formenti, Ambra | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-26T16:43:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-01-26T16:43:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2014 | |
| dc.description | Tese de doutoramento, Antropologia (Antropologia da Religião e do Simbólico), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2014 | por |
| dc.description.abstract | In the last decades the intensification of migratory flows has led to a gradual pluralisation of urban religious landscapes in Europe. One of the most relevant aspects of this process is the spreading of Evangelical and Pentecostal churches founded by African migrants, a phenomenon that contributed to the emergence of new configurations of Christianity in Europe. The town of Lisbon (Portugal), a place where different experiences of spirituality and distinct worldviews meet and interact, is an emblematic case of religious encounter between deep-rooted Catholicism and imported forms of Christianity. This dissertation provides an ethnography of Guinean Evangelical Christianity in Lisbon, focusing on the case of the Missão Evangélica Lusófona (MEL), a church settled in the outskirts of Lisbon and attended mostly by migrants from Guinea-Bissau. Taking the MEL as a case-study of African Churches in the diaspora, I try to describe and analyse the centrality of religion in the lives of Evangelical Guinean migrants in Lisbon. My central argument is that, in this context, religious faith appears as a way to make sense of the experiences of dislocation and re-location of believers. Accordingly, in the following pages I portray MEL as an emblematic example of how Evangelical Christianity sustains migrants in their transnational movements while concurringly enables them to create a sense of place in the localities in which they chose to dwell. Furthermore, by examining the experiences and life stories of MEL’s members, I address a series of issues, such as: the meaning of conversion for individuals and communities; the connection between religious faith and the condition of stranger; the relationship between global/universal and local/particular dimensions of religious identity; the ways in which religious actors appropriate and transform the urban space where they live in; the emergence and transformation of peculiar visions of space and time, including the ways how human groups produce their past, present and future. | por |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) | por |
| dc.identifier.tid | 101325673 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10451/15798 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.subject | Teses de doutoramento - 2014 | por |
| dc.title | Going for god : mobility, place and temporality among evangelical guineans in Lisbon | por |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.familyName | Formenti | |
| person.givenName | Ambra | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 5618-BFF7-C237 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-9050-4661 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | doctoralThesis | por |
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| thesis.degree.level | Doutor | por |
| thesis.degree.name | Doutoramento em Antropologia | por |