The state of affairs of some studies concerning Romani groups’ conversions throughout the world to the global evangelical movement, and the subtext that prevails in such studies, could reveal a persistence of ‘enlightened prejudice’ towards the nature of religions, namely, a kind of suspicion and authoritarianism that continues to tacitly fuel hostility against emerging religious phenomena, and the tendency of analysts to share, consciously or unconsciously, the language of the State, producing a negative vision of the Romani world. The creativity and autonomy exhibited by Romani Evangelism, which stays away from external financing and, generally speaking, policies of minority promotion, contribute to a vast trans-regional network of congregations, that aim towards an unprecedented global pan-Romanism with a strong social base. This is a response to a historic diaspora, and, in turn, a new form of the secular Romani diaspora.
RETHINKING THE PROBLEMS OF MULTI-SITED ETHNOGRAPHY: intuition, emotion, reflexivity and artEn el presente artículo trato de exponer algunas de las problemáticas que, como otros antropólogos/as desarrollando otras etnografías que se han venido a llamar "multilocales" (Marcus, 1995), encontré cuando realizaba trabajo de campo en el sur de España y en Buenos Aires (Argentina). El funcionamiento de los sistemas de financiación del ámbito académico, los compromisos profesionales y personales, los cambios producidos entre viajes y las dificultades ya inherentes en las etnografías multilocales pusieron en peligro el proceso de producción de datos en mi propia etnografía. En línea con una puesta en valor de la etnografía en múltiples lugares, en este texto expongo cómo hice frente a algunas de sus complicaciones. Por último, propondré que la autoetnografía puede ser una vía razonable para mitigar algunas de las dificultades que impone la etnografía multilocal.In the present article, I try to expose some of the inconveniences that I have found when researching for a fieldwork in the south of Spain and Buenos Aires (Argentina), as it happened to many other researchers that developed the so-called multi-sited ethnographies (Marcus, 1995). The operations of the funding systems in the academic field, the professional and personal commitments, the changes that took place among different trips and the inherent adversities in the multi-sited ethnographies put in danger the data production processes of my own ethnography. Considering the value of the ethnography in different locations and communities, I explain how I bypassed some of these inconveniences. To finish, I will propose the autoethnography as a reasonable method to mitigate some of the complications naturally imposed by this multi-sited ethnography.
This text reflects on the constitution of the Gypsy Pentecostal person, thus inserting itself in the debates on the continuity or rupture that motivate conversions to Christianity. The moral obligations generated by kinship relations among the Gypsies and the links with the Holy Spirit make it difficult to find gaps for the deployment of individuality by evangelical Gypsies. However, the materialization of God’s desire is embedded in the dynamics of leadership, which in the context of the religious organization causes the charisma to avoid its routinization.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.