African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century

by Annalisa Butticci

Over the past thirty years, Italy--the historic home of Catholicism--has become a significant destination for migrants from Nigeria and Ghana. Along with suitcases and dreams of a brighter future, these Africans bring their own form of Christianity, Pentecostalism, shaped by their various cultures and religious worlds. At the heart of Annalisa Butticci's beautifully sculpted ethnography of African Pentecostalism in Italy is a paradox. Pentecostalism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737091
• ISBN13: 9780674737099
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"