African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century

Annalisa Butticci

Published by Harvard University Press 2016

African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe

The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century

Annalisa Butticci

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674968660

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Catholic Italy is a destination for migrants from Nigeria and Ghana, who bring their own form of Christianity—Pentecostalism, the most Protestant of Christian faiths. At the heart of Annalisa Butticci’s ethnography is a paradox. Believers on both sides are driven by a desire to find sensuous, material ways to make the divine visible and tangible.

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Excellent and highly readable… The different sides have surprising commonalities, and it is in this area that the book makes its greatest contribution to the literature on migrant religion.
-- Philip Jenkins Books & Culture

In an era of intensified mobility, when the spiritual landscape in Europe seems beset by a friction of faiths, Butticci’s scintillating, innovative book reveals a less-noted dynamic: the expansion of contact zones, in which seemingly different denominations rub up against one another, to discover unexpected resonances—including the surprisingly similar ways in which Catholics and Pentecostals in Italy work to make real the presence of divine power in the lives of believers. The result is a study of unusual insight, humanity, and imagination.
-- Jean Comaroff, Harvard University

This is a marvelous ethnography of the contact zone in which African Pentecostals engage with Italian Catholics. Offering deep insight into both Pentecostal and Catholic aesthetic regimes, Annalisa Butticci magisterially unpacks their clashes and unexpected convergences with regard to relics, images, and religious sensations. The result is a thoroughly grounded, highly innovative theoretical intervention that spotlights the power of a political-aesthetic approach in capturing the evocation of ‘real presence’ via competing registers.
-- Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University

Butticci’s African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century is a fascinating exploration of the at-times endearing and at others deeply troubling encounter of contemporary practitioners of divergent faiths, one hosting newcomer migrants and creating in that bond of hospitality a kind of bridge to European society.
-- Donald Carter EuropeNow

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. African Pentecostalism in the Storm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Contact Zones and Religious Short Circuits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Holy Bones Desire and Disgust of Real Presence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. Afro-Pentecostal Renaissance Remediation and Mimesis of Raphael’s Transfigured Christ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages
- Main content: 186
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- Other: 2 halftones

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Published: April 4, 2016
ISBN: 9780674968660