Evangelical belonging and Migrant experience (USA)

In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States Johanna Bard Richlin Why do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands of God examines this question through a unique lens, foregrounding the ways that churches transform what migrants...

Publié le 28/04/2022 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

The Quest for Russia's Soul, Evangelicals and Moral Education

What were American Evangelicals doing in Russian public schools after the collapse of the USSR? Actually, the Russian Ministry of Education had invited them. Faced with the need for new approaches to moral education after the demise of communism, the Russian Ministry of Education turned to a group of Western evangelical Christians called the CoMission for help. Oddly enough, a...

Publié le 03/03/2022 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

Orthodoxy & Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective

Since the 1990s, the Eastern Orthodox and Protestant Evangelical communities have had more direct contact with each other than at any other time. A small but growing number of dialogues have occurred around the globe along with significant comparative studies in history, doctrine, worship, and spiritual life. Few regional studies, however, have examined areas outside the Anglophone world,...

Publié le 23/12/2021 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

Postcolonial revival in the French-speaking world

Just a few days ago, Yvan Castanou , a prominent megachurch pastor (IMpact Centre Chrétien, ICC)  based in the Paris' suburbs, met in Lagos Bishop David Oyedepo, Nigeria's most powerful Evangelical pastor. The go-between was pastor Matthew Ashimolowo , megachurch pastor based in London (Kingsway International church). This kind of connection doesn't come by accident. It is a...

Publié le 28/10/2021 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

Reminder: Conference on the Christian Right (22 and 23th of oct, 2021)

Publié le 07/10/2021 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

British Protestant Missions, Europe and ”imaginary colonialism”

"This ( excellent!) 2021 book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. Continental Europe was considered a missionary land—another periphery of the world, whose centre was imperial Britain. British missions to Europe were informed by religious experiments in America, Africa, and Asia, rendering these...

Publié le 30/09/2021 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

”The Christian Right: What Convergences today?”

An international conference not to be missed! Research on evangelicals being at the heart of current events, the objective of this international conference will be to broaden the field by crossing analyses and observations in order to better identify the dynamics at work in the Christian world on the level of interactions between religion and politics. The conference intends to put...

Publié le 16/09/2021 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

The History of Evangelicals and Religious Freedom (Baylor)

An international online conference from the Evangelical Studies Program at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, and co-sponsored by Baylor’s Truett Seminary After a successful conference last year on the history of Evangelicals in Latin America, the Evangelical Studies Program at Baylor ISR will hold a conference on the history of Evangelicals and religious freedom. It will range...

Publié le 19/08/2021 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

Christian Zionist religiouscapes in Brazil (Social Compass)

he increasing appropriation by Charismatic Evangelicals of Jewish narratives, rituals, and even Zionist anxieties is now evident in many parts of the globe. Drawing on two cases, one based on a Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal church and another based on an ethnographic investigation of a ‘Judaizing Evangelical’ community in Brazil this study interrogates to what extent we can comprehend this...

Publié le 24/06/2021 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...

”Evangelicalism & Religious Experience in Black Women’s Activism”

This article centers Black religious women’s activist memoirs, including Mamie Till Mobley’s Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America (2003) and Rep. Lucia Kay McBath’s Standing Our Ground: The Triumph of Faith over Gun Violence: A Mother’s Story (2018), to refocus the narrative of American Evangelicalism and politics around Black women’s authoritative...

Publié le 17/06/2021 dans French Windows par A lire | Lire la suite...