Between global and local: Roma Pentecostal Church identity in Serbia

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY

Romani Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.3828/rs.2021.10

Melody J. Wachsmuth

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Abstract:Joel Robbins (2003) described Pentecostalism as both continuous, taking into account local ontologies, and discontinuous, rupturing against certain social structures or epistemologies. He refers to this as Pentecostalism's double paradox. In this framework, Pentecostalism is local in that it often addresses the questions and issues emerging from a particular context. However, there is also a global Pentecostal identity which is reinforced through conferences, mission partnerships, shared music, and sermons.Roma Pentecostals in Southeastern Europe are also in the process of negotiating their Pentecostal identity. On the one hand, Pentecostalism is the dominant form of Christianity spreading among the Roma in Serbia because of its flexible ecclesiology, its openness to miraculous signs and wonders, its non-hierarchical structure, and its emotive personality. On the other hand, there is a rising number of mission agencies and Western missionaries working with Roma churches. Roma leaders are often negotiating what to accept and what to reject in terms of Christian theology and praxis, teaching, and programs and activities. Thus, the Pentecostal identity of their churches is being shaped in response to their own local questions and needs but also in response to the partnership from others, both through good experiences and negative ones.This paper will explore this church identity negotiation, looking at two case studies of Roma churches in Serbia. First, this paper will establish the wider conversation in Pentecostal studies regarding the relationship between inculturation and globalization. Next, this paper will analyse some of the factors of the decisionmaking process regarding how Roma leaders decide what to accept and what to reject in terms of outside influences. This analysis will bring to the foreground the operating cultural and religious values and how that contributes to the dialectical process of Pentecostal identity.

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在全球和当地之间：塞尔维亚的罗姆五旬节教会身份

摘要：乔尔·罗宾斯（Joel Robbins）（2003）将五旬节主义描述为连续的，考虑到局部本体论，以及不连续的，打破某些社会结构或认识论。他认为这是五旬节主义的双重悖论。在这个框架下，五旬节主义是地方性的，因为它经常解决特定背景下出现的问题。然而，也有一种全球五旬节派的身份，通过会议、使命伙伴关系、共享音乐和布道来加强。东南欧的罗姆五旬节教徒也在就他们的五旬节身份进行谈判。一方面，五旬节主义是基督教在塞尔维亚罗姆人中传播的主要形式，因为它的教会学灵活，对奇迹和奇迹持开放态度，它的非等级结构，以及它的情感个性。另一方面，越来越多的传教机构和西方传教士与罗马教会合作。罗姆人领导人经常就基督教神学和实践、教学、计划和活动方面的接受和拒绝进行谈判。因此，他们教会的五旬节派身份是为了回应他们自己的当地问题和需求而形成的，同时也是为了回应其他人的伙伴关系，无论是通过良好的经历还是消极的经历。本文将通过对塞尔维亚罗姆人教会的两个案例研究来探讨这种教会身份协商。首先，本文将在五旬节派研究中建立更广泛的对话，讨论灌输与全球化之间的关系。接下来，本文将分析决策过程中的一些因素，即罗姆人领导人如何在外部影响下决定接受什么和拒绝什么。这一分析将使运作中的文化和宗教价值观以及它如何对五旬节派身份的辩证过程做出贡献。

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Romani Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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0.80

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50.00%

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies. These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom. The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.