Enacted Destiny

West African Charismatic Christians in Berlin and the Immanence of God

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3933152
AutoresB Nieswand (0000-0003-0976-1829, Max Planck Society, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen40
Número1
Páginas33-59
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/002242010x12580044312982
OpenAlexW2074466853
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas15

The focus of this article is the concept of enacted destiny, which was identified among charismatic Christians of West African origin in Berlin. Different from more fatalistic concepts of destiny, it combines a strong notion of free agency with a strong notion of a good, almighty, and immanent God. The imaginary of enacted destiny is constituted by two components: 1. presituational religious empowerment by which charismatic Christians can reduce complexities, anxieties, and insecurities in the context of decision making; and 2. postsituational sense-making by which divine agency is ascribed to an originally ambiguous situation. Both components temporally embrace the actions of West African charismatic Christians in Berlin. Actions thereby become the means through which God becomes immanent in the everyday lives of West African charismatic Christians in Berlin and enacted destiny a category of movement toward convergence of human and divine agency

Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Charisma · Context (archaeology · Destiny (ISS module · Epistemology · Immanence · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies