“I Do Not Think I Could be a Christian on My Own”

In this article, I explore how eight female Pentecostals express their everyday religion in contemporary Sweden. This article indicates that a shift has taken place in religious practice in Swedish Pentecostalism from earlier decades. The world-rejecting attitude and individual pietistic heritage ha...

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1. VerfasserIn: Kuhlin, Julia (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2017
In: Pneuma
Jahr: 2017, Band: 39, Heft: 4, Seiten: 482-503
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
KBE Nordeuropa; Skandinavien
KDG Freikirche
NBE Anthropologie
NBG Pneumatologie; Heiliger Geist
weitere Schlagwörter:B Swedish Pentecostalism lived religion relational religion Pentecostalism and gender
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Zusammenfassung:In this article, I explore how eight female Pentecostals express their everyday religion in contemporary Sweden. This article indicates that a shift has taken place in religious practice in Swedish Pentecostalism from earlier decades. The world-rejecting attitude and individual pietistic heritage have been toned down and replaced by what I will term a relational piety that emphasizes the relational side of being “Christ-like” and encourages adherents to practice their everyday religion together. The informants depended on their family, friends, congregation, and Christian networks to maintain and deepen their religiosity and Christian lifestyle. The study is also an example of a broadly gender-equal expression of Pentecostalism and points to the movement’s ability to adjust to different contexts.
ISSN:1570-0747
Enthält:In: Pneuma
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700747-03904002