Creating an Evangelical self: an analysis of narratives of conversion to Evangelicalism in post-Soviet St Petersburg

Penttilä, Maija

doi:10.1080/09637494.2016.1175156

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“…To answer these questions, I analyzed interviews (N = 16) from St. Petersburg that were conducted during fieldwork between 2006 and 2009 in communities that may be defined as charismatic. Based on these interviews and other ethnographic data from four worship communities, several other articles have been written (e.g., Turunen 2010;Penttilä 2014;Penttilä 2016). The interviewees ranged in age between 17 and 65.…”

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“…The feeling that faith made the believers outsiders among other people was not very openly expressed, but it did become evident in the way interviewees did not always want to tell other people that they were believers and not Orthodox. Being part of a minority church in a context in which Orthodoxy is, in many ways, the leading faith identity quite often caused some shared emotions of being an outsider and retreating in However, sadness was also argued to be a Russian value and a stamp of wisdom that made Russians different from Americans, and that explains why the American gospel of health and wealth had not found its place in the Russian charismatic field (for more, see Penttilä 2016).…”

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Individual Emotions Describing Continuity and Engagement in Religion: Charismatic Communality in the Light of Interaction Ritual Theory

Penttilä

2023

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The emotionality of modern times is evident in the ways in which people are religious. Among the Christian denominations, the Charismatic/Pentecostal movement, in all its diversity, is the most successful in spreading globally. It has been argued that charismatic communities are successful venues of interaction and are powerful in offering emotional experiences. However, in order for such religious experiences to lead to a continuity of religious interaction, a long-term tone of emotional energy and the presence of a stable social bond between participants is needed. The aim of this article is to analyze emotional energy as an outcome of successful interaction rituals in charismatic communities. Emotional energy is a concept that Randal Collins has formed, building on Durkheim, to analyze emotions in interaction by viewing them as “the main motivating force in social life”. This was studied by interviewing individuals on their emotions about their charismatic communities and daily life. When utilizing a self-report focus on subjective feelings, individuals may report information using different wordings relevant to any component of emotion. Special importance is placed on the cognitive processing of emotional episodes, which allows individuals to detect the relevance of each emotion, understand its causes and consequences, and communicate the emotional knowledge to others, including the researcher. The results show that, most of all, the emotions that cause some sort of pleasure, e.g., happiness and surprise, are the leading lights in narrating engagement in charismatic communities and faith. Faith also has a fear-regulating effect. Happiness as a mood is built both on experiences of God’s help and even more on one’s responsible way of life and the feeling of abandoning moral hesitation in favor of doing what is ethically right in life, which also regulates negative emotions. Collin’s theory focuses on emotional energy that is positive, but emotional experiences can also be negative, which do not contribute to the solidarity of a group.

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Individual Emotions Describing Continuity and Engagement in Religion: Charismatic Communality in the Light of Interaction Ritual Theory

Penttilä

2023

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“…The Evangelical movement is characterized by the mission of evangelism as the main orientation and the belief that the way of salvation is only obtained by those who follow the path of Jesus. 53 According to Aritonang and Steenbrik, 54 the term Evangelical usually refers to conservative church groups in Indonesia who associate themselves as part of the fundamentalist movement that emerged in America in the early 20th century AD. One informant of this research is a member of Evangelical Christian.…”

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Shari’a State and the Making of Christian’s Polyphonic Narrations in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia

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2022

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Abstract: There is an increasing interest in the study of Christian identity as a minority in a Muslim majority country. However, the study of plurality regarding the Christian identity considering the context of Islamic Sharia in Aceh is still limited. This article discusses the formation and representation of Christian identity in Aceh by focusing on how they negotiate internal aspirations in the context of Islamic Sharia. The data are based on in-depth interviews with fifteen Christian figures consisting of priests and religious leaders in five districts/cities in Aceh. The article argues that the internal and external dynamics of Christians influenced the narration of their identity in Aceh. The article shows the context of Islamic Sharia and the plurality of Christian internal aspirations resulting in unsimplifiable to a single genre, but rather polyphonic and sometimes mutually contested.Keywords: Aceh Christian, identity reproduction, sharia law

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Creating an Evangelical self: an analysis of narratives of conversion to Evangelicalism in post-Soviet St Petersburg

Cited by 2 publications

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Individual Emotions Describing Continuity and Engagement in Religion: Charismatic Communality in the Light of Interaction Ritual Theory

Individual Emotions Describing Continuity and Engagement in Religion: Charismatic Communality in the Light of Interaction Ritual Theory

Shari’a State and the Making of Christian’s Polyphonic Narrations in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia

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