Healing the Wounds of Modernity

Salvation, Community and Care in a Neo-Pentecostal Church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3933235
AutoresHansjörg Dilger (0000-0002-8493-4286, University of Florida, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen37
Número1
Páginas59-83
Fecha de publicación2007-01-01
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)
DOI10.1163/157006607x166591
OpenAlexW2161516360
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas73
Referencias citadas17

The responses of Christian religions to HIV/AIDS in Africa have been described either with regard to the stigmatising attitudes of churches, or with reference to the charitable acts of Christian organisations in the context of the epidemic. Drawing on fieldwork in a Neo-Pentecostal church in urban Tanzania, this article shows that the Full Gospel Bible Fellowship Church in Dar es Salaam is becoming highly attractive to its followers because of the social, spiritual and economic perspectives that it offers, and particularly because of the networks of healing and support that it has established under the circumstances of urbanisation, structural reform programmes and the AIDS epidemic. The author argues for a stronger focus on practices of healing and community building in studies on Pentecostalism, which may shed light on the continuities as well as the ruptures that are produced by the rise of Neo-Pentecostalism in the context of globalisation, modernity and HIV/AIDS

Christianity · Context (archaeology · Dar es salaam · Economic growth · Ethnology · Globalization · Gospel · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Tanzania · Theology · Urbanization · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies