Pfingsten im Kontext: Zur Adaption des Pfingstglaubens in Griechenland

Autor(en)

Evangelos Karagiannis

Abstrakt

The present article addresses two issues that have preoccupied anthropological research on Pentecostal churches: context -sensitivity and radical globalism/antinationalism. The article seeks to qualify this dominant image of Pentecostals in anthropology by focusing on Greece, where nationalism has strong roots and is closely linked to Orthodox Christianity, and by analysing the development of the leading Pentecostal church of the country over the last fifty years. It can be established that the church's sensitive adaptation to dominant religious expectations in Greece did ensure its hegemonic position among Greek Pentecostals, but it also involved its disconnection from global Pentecostalism. Furthermore, the very success of the church over the first three decades after its establishment stimulated a structural rigidity, which in turn proved to be fatal for its capacity to adapt to an ever-changing social context in Greece. Meanwhile, being neither globalist nor adaptive, the largest Greek Pentecostal church is stagnating.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Anthropos

Band

115

Seiten

133-150

Anzahl der Seiten

18

ISSN

0257-9774

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2020-1-133

Publikationsdatum

2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504025 Religionssoziologie, 504010 Europäische Ethnologie, 504008 Ethnographie, 504009 Ethnologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften, Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Link zum Portal

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