If you are saved you cannot forget your parents
Agency, Power, and Social Repositioning in Tanzanian born-again Christianity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3932018 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Lindhardt (0000-0002-4507-8368, 1Faculty of Ethnology, University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 80 2300 Copenhagen, Email: [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 240-272 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006610x530330 |
| OpenAlex | W2011454943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
In much of the literature on African Pentecostalism, conversion has been associated with a striving for modernist individualist identities and a strategy for legitimising social, generational rupture. This article contributes to the existing scholarly field by shedding light on the ways in which urban Tanzanian born-again Christians address generational antagonisms and position themselves in relation to elder generations. Drawing on anthropological discussions of the concept of agency and focusing particular attention on the ways in which a specific kind of agency is cultivated through participation in ritual, I argue against a narrow association of born-again Christianity with modernist individualism. While an assertion of individual autonomy is implied in conversion, Tanzanian born-again Christians do not cease to be social beings, deeply embedded in family relationships. I demonstrate how born-again religious practice enables urban Tanzanians to actively rephrase and sometimes even improve their relationships with unconverted family elders
Agency (philosophy) · Assertion · Autonomy · Christianity · History of religions · Individualism · Political science · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
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Teatime
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,69 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |