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Churches, Blackness, and Contested MulticulturalismBalancing Christianity, Culture, and Race: African Pentecostals in Italy

Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism: Balancing Christianity, Culture, and Race:... [This work profiles Ghanaian and Nigerian Pentecostal churches in Italy and puts in conversation race and religion in a country where whiteness and Catholicism are the markers defining the Italian nationstate. In introducing the current development of African migrations to Italy and the social condition of African migrants in the Italian society, this chapter addresses the role of religious culture or religious aesthetics of African Pentecostal churches as a creative agency and space of resilience.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Churches, Blackness, and Contested MulticulturalismBalancing Christianity, Culture, and Race: African Pentecostals in Italy

Editors: Smith, R. Drew; Ackah, William; Reddie, Anthony G.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-48934-3
Pages
115 –132
DOI
10.1057/9781137386380_9
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This work profiles Ghanaian and Nigerian Pentecostal churches in Italy and puts in conversation race and religion in a country where whiteness and Catholicism are the markers defining the Italian nationstate. In introducing the current development of African migrations to Italy and the social condition of African migrants in the Italian society, this chapter addresses the role of religious culture or religious aesthetics of African Pentecostal churches as a creative agency and space of resilience.]

Published: Nov 5, 2015

Keywords: Religious Community; Italian Society; Undocumented Migrant; African Immigrant; Black Church

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