Worship and social engagement in urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal congregations : (re)imagining identity in the spirit / by Tanya Riches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riches, Tanya, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; v. 32.

Global Pentecostal and charismatic studies, 1876-2247 ; volume 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians.

Religious life.

Public worship.

Australia.

Public worship--Pentecostal churches.

Public worship--Australia.

Aboriginal Australians--Religion.

Aboriginal Australians--Religious life.

Physical Description:

ix, 308 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit' provides an ethnographic account of three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership. Within this Pentecostalism, Dreaming realities and identities must be brought together with the Christian gospel. Yet current political and economic relationships with the Australian state complicate the possibilities of interactions between culture and Spirit. The result is a matrix or network of these churches stretching across Australia, with Black Australian Pentecostals resisting and accommodating the state through the construction of new and ancient identities. This work occurs most notably in context of the worship ritual, which functions through ritual interaction chains to energise the various social engagement programs these congregations sustain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Riches, Tanya, author. Worship and social engagement in urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal congregations

ISBN:

9789004400252

9004400257

OCLC:

1085777432