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2. 1. Piety, Intimacy and Mobility : A Case Study of Charismatic Christianity in Present-day Stockholm

   Author : Jessica Moberg; Tuija Hovi; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Charismatic Christianity; Pentecostalism; habituation; learning religion; mobility; ritualization; ritual appropriation; religious consumption; commodification; materiality; embodiment; narrative; late modernity; globalization; inward turn; subjective turn; authenticity; intimacy; prayer; worship; music; testimony; urban religion; religious eclecticism; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Charismatic Christianity; Pentecostalism; habituation; learning religion; mobility; ritualization; ; ritual appropriation; religious consumption; commodification; materiality; embodiment; narrative; late modernity; globalization; inward turn; subjective turn; authenticity; intimacy; prayer; worship; music; testimony; urban religion; religious eclecticism.;

   Abstract : Stockholm County is a post-industrial Swedish region characterized by high levels of mobility and technologization as well as ethnic and religious diversity. Among its religious minorities exist various strands of charismatic Christianity, some of which originate from the Pentecostal revival of the early 20th century and some of which belong to more recent movements. READ MORE

4. 2. Morality as Practice : The Santo Daime, an Eco-Religious Movement in the Amazonian Rainforest

   Author : Titti Kristina Schmidt; Ing-Britt Trankell; Michael Lambek; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Cultural anthropology; Brazil; Amazonia; Santo Daime; caboclos; environmentalism; religion; religious movements; social movements; morality; Kulturantropologi;

   Abstract : This study deals with Santo Daime, a religious and environmental movement in the Brazilian Amazon. It is based on 15 months of anthropological fieldwork in the foundational centre of the Santo Daime movement, Céu do Mapiá, Heaven of Mapiá, located deep inside the Brazilian State of Amazonas. READ MORE

5. 3. In Search of the Self: A Study of the International Scene of Modern Advaitic Satsang in Present-Day Rishikesh

   Author : Elin Thorsén; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern Advaita; Neo-Advaita; Satsang; Rishikesh; Guru movements; Translocative religion; Spiritual tourism; Religion and globalization;

   Abstract : The north Indian pilgrimage town Rishikesh has since the late 1990’s become something of a center for the international scene of Modern Advaita. An increasing number of teachers and adherents from mainly Western countries have started to gather there for a few weeks each spring to engage in satsang, a form of dialogical lectures, in these cases based on contemporary interpretations of the classical Indian philosophical system Advaita (“nondual”) Vedānta. READ MORE

6. 4. They Will Call Me the Black God : Imaging Christianity and the Bible in African Film

   Author : Oulia Adzhoa Sika Makkonen; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Ashleigh Harris; Jolyon Mitchell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion in film; African Film; Reception of the Bible; World Christianity; Transnational; Religionshistoria och global kristendom; History of Religions and World Christianity;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the ways in which African filmmakers have historically addressed Christianity and the Bible on the continent. It begins with the premise that on the African continent, marked political films (Mazierska) are embedded in transnational dynamics involving movements of economic and symbolic capital, ideas, discourses and multiple publics. READ MORE

7. 5. Lived Pentecostalism in India : Middle Class Women and Their Everyday Religion

   Author : Julia Kuhlin; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Kirsteen Kim; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Christianity in India; Pentecostalism in India; middle class Pentecostalism; religion and gender; lived religion; everyday religion; agency; emotion; intersectionality; Gurugram; global pentekostalism; medelklass pentekostalism; kristendom i Indien; levd religion; agens; känslor; intersektionalitet; Religionshistoria och global kristendom; History of Religions and World Christianity;

   Abstract : In recent decades, the Pentecostal movement in India has not only grown significantly, it has also become increasingly diverse. While the majority of the movement’s adherents still belong to marginalized groups in Indian society, middle-class Pentecostals are growing in number and changing the dynamics and identity of the movement. READ MORE