| Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-Led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)Imagining Identity in the Spirit Contributor(s): Riches, Tanya (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004400257 ISBN-13: 9789004400252 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $70.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Pentecostal & Charismatic - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Series: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit provides an ethnographic account of three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership. Within this Pentecostalism, Dreaming realities and identities must be brought together with the Christian gospel. Yet current political and economic relationships with the Australian state complicate the possibilities of interactions between culture and Spirit. The result is a matrix or network of these churches stretching across Australia, with Black Australian Pentecostals resisting and accommodating the state through the construction of new and ancient identities. This work occurs most notably in context of the worship ritual, which functions through ritual interaction chains to energise the various social engagement programs these congregations sustain. |
