Realness through Mediating Body

The Emergence of Charismatic/Pentecostal Communities in Beirut
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8471-0719-4
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Reihe: Kirche - Konfession - Religion

After the end of the civil war in 1990, the Charismatic/Pentecostal (C/P) movement in Beirut spread across various Christian denominations. C/P believers narrated how Jesus became real to them via the experience of the Holy Spirit. The author explains this impression of realness through embodiment. Ritual practices like testimony and experience of divine agency are experienced as fullness within a post war society and are extended into the every day sphere. This ethnographic account represents the beginning research of C/P Christianity’s emergence in the Middle East and its contribution to social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dik, Oleg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen

Über Autor(innen)

Dik, Oleg
Oleg Dik is Professor of Urban Sociology & Theology at Evangelische Hochschule Tabor / TSB Berlin and occasionally lectures at Humboldt University, Berlin.
Oleg Dik studied Protestant Theology, Religious and Cultural Studies in Germany and Lebanon and received his PhD in Religious Studies. He is a lecturer in Sociology of Religion at Humboldt University Berlin and Leipzig University and leads “Batik”, a Christian-intercultural community center in Berlin.