Last posts on great britain

African Pentecostalism in Britain

2022-04-14T09:45:00+02:00

This fortcoming book is based on ethnographic research among African Pentecostal Christians living in the UK. Written by by Katharine Stockland, Senior Social Researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), UK, the book title is : African Pentecostalism in Britain Migration, Inclusion, and the Prosperity Gospel

addresses themes of migration and community formation, religious identity and practice, and social and political exclusion. With attention to strained kinship relationships, precarious labour conditions, and struggles for legal and social legitimacy, it explores the ways in which intimacy with a Pentecostal God - and with fellow Christians - has been shaped by the challenges of everyday life for Africans in the UK.

Can't wait to read it ! Link (Routledge)

British Protestant Missions, Europe and ”imaginary colonialism”

2021-09-30T18:49:00+02:00

"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 offensives against Europe a true form of "imaginary colonialism".

British Protestant missionaries often understood themselves to be at the forefront of a civilising project directed at Catholics (and sometimes even at other Protestants). Their mission was further reinforced by Britain becoming a land of compassionate refuge for European dissenters and exiles. This book engages with the myth of International Protestantism, questioning its early origins and its narrative of transnational belonging, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protestant land of hope and glory."

Link.

Why the world is becoming more French

2021-08-26T09:26:00+02:00

From industrial policy and nuclear power to "strategic autonomy" and the 35-hour week, the 2020s are popularising many French instincts about world affairs and the state.

Thank you Jeremy Cliffe for this stimulating analysis (NewStatesman)

Corbyn demande la démission de May

2017-06-10T12:16:14+02:00

English touch

2011-04-29T18:00:00+02:00

Le mariage du Prince William et de Kate Middleton - qu'on appellera désormais le duc et la duchesse de Cambridge - méritait bien une touche anglaise aujourd'hui. Quoi de mieux qu'un english breakfast pour accompagner l'union de ces deux beaux jeunes gens? Un petit déjeuner bien roboratif qui permet de sauter le lunch (parce que ce serait vraiment pas raisonnable de déjeuner vu les calories qu'on avale...).

So I had baked beans, bacon, sausages, toasts, fried egg, cheddar and I drank tea. Royal tea! (with honey) A wonderful breakfast!

God bless William and Catherine!

Royal Day

2011-04-29T09:15:00+02:00

Je ne sais pas ce que vous avez prévu aujourd'hui mais je suis certaine qu'un certain nombre d'entre vous sera devant son téléviseur ce matin pour le mariage du Prince William avec Kate Middleton. Moi la première! Rien de politique dans ma démarche. Je ne suis pas royaliste. Mais je trouve ça kitch: le mariage en calèche, le "dress code" à respecter pour les invités, le protocole et les milliards d'objets en tous genres qui fleurissent un peu partout depuis quelques mois de l'autre côté de la Manche...

Ce mariage devrait nous apporter un peu de rêve. Du rêve dans le sens où une roturière peu se marier désormais avec un prince... Un vrai conte de fées pour Kate Middleton. Rien ne la prédestinait à sa naissance à un mariage comme celui-ci.

Cependant, personnellement, je ne voudrais pas d'un mariage avec autant de tralala. Moi, mon rêve, c'est de me marier entre deux témoins à la mairie. Enfin! si un jour je me marie! Ca semble mal parti pour... Snif! Est-ce que ça existe un homme gentil, attentionné, cultivé, gastronome, ayant de l'humour et capable d'aimer la même femme jusqu'à la fin de ses jours? C'est beaucoup demander, je sais. En France, ce genre d'homme ne se trouve pas sous le pied d'un cheval. Les Anglais sont à mon avis beaucoup plus proches de cette description.

Divided Kingdom of Satan

2010-03-01T19:21:00+01:00

There is probably just one Point where a French guy can make peace with one US guy (I am not talking about French Suckers who are dreaming about US-Dollars of course but about those who know the true History of the bombing of Normandy by the US-Air Force; or the intolerable weakness of US-Girls that makes the coupling between a French guy and an US-girl impossible -except if this French guy is Gay.)

Point of peace is the common hate of Great-Britain. Good point in Christianity when it is not ruled by almost female is that the hate of every nation is encouraged! Gospels should be prohibited as much as Marxism in the US Nation if common US-people would be able to read.

Hate of Great-Britain, ruled by Shylock, that betrayed Shakespeare. Always the same (the sole?) example of Ezra Pound who came to England, thinking that Englishmen would be interested in... Art! Man, Englishmen are only interested in motherfucking. Between smart Evelyn Waugh and Ezra Pound, both praising Mussolini as an honest capitalist (an example for Barack Obama, even if it is difficult to imagine Pound or Mussolini in Harvard), I am choosing Pound. There is no excuse when you are from the Country of Bacon and Shakespeare.