Since the 1990s, the Eastern Orthodox and Protestant Evangelical communities have had more direct contact with each other than at any other time. A small but growing number of dialogues have occurred ...around the globe along with significant comparative studies in history, doctrine, worship, and spiritual life. Few regional studies, however, have examined areas outside the Anglophone world, or the political and legal aspects of relationships between these traditions. Therefore, this volume breaks fresh ground. This volume is a collection of scholarly essays on current issues and/or developments in Orthodox–Evangelical relations, at both global and national levels, which will inform the ongoing dialogue. The essays explore the history of relationships and the factors that help or hinder them, as well as current missiological challenges, political and legal issues, comparative theology and spirituality, eco-theology, and other topics. A particular strength is the number of contributions from Orthodox and Evangelicals in Eastern Europe.
Based on the author’s experience as an Advocacy Consultant at the Brazilian National Congress, representing Conectas Human Rights, an international civil society organisation in Brazil, that has been ...working for the past 18 years on implementing and maintaining human rights, this article presents a case study to analyse the position of the current evangelical bloc in relation to decrees to ease gun control in Brazil (numbers 9.785/2019 and 9.797/2019). To this end, the current political context, that is the backdrop of these regulations, will be considered, as well as the constructive discourse surrounding the imposition of Christian values as moral and social values and possible contradictions in this discourse. Attention will be drawn to the escalation of penal norms for citizens’’ ‘self-protection’. It also aims to analyse the discourse of some of the members of congress who make up this bloc and the influence they have in the formulation of public security policy, as well as the implications of these positions on advocacy as a form of working alongside civil society, on possible dialogue to maintain and defend fundamental rights.
Haitian mobility to Chile increased significantly between 2010 and 2018, exhibiting certain characteristics that distinguish it from other migrant collectives. One of these is the Christian religious ...adherence they manifest, in that they attend different types of evangelical churches, both Chilean and Haitian, a central point of reference in their social organization in the diaspora. These religious institutions are directly linked to Chilean evangelicals; however, given the mutual mistrust and convivial clash, autonomous and self-segregated churches have emerged as a result of multiculturalism. Haitians' inclusion in society and their establishment in the country have been challenging given their experiences of subalternity, racism, limited command of Spanish, and low-skilled and low-paying jobs, among other factors, alienating them from the Chilean population. As such, it is important to examine these religious communities and ask ourselves about the relevance of evangelical churches in the relationships established between nationals and migrants. A qualitative approach methodology, ethnographic fieldwork, and in-depth interviews conducted between 2018 and 2022 in Santiago, in various churches and cults in Creole, revealed that some Haitians and Chileans are interested in ecclesial and extra-religious interculturality, as they share similar beliefs. However, this is not enough to establish closer coexistence and the distance between Chileans and Haitians is increasing, with greater segregation in the capital.
ABSTRACT This work aims to reflect on possible meanings for the evangelical faith based on utterances produced by three evangelical ministers in their social networks when they enunciate on themes ...that are linked, directly or indirectly, to political agendas. Based on the theoretical scope of studies in Applied Linguistics and on Bakhtinian conceptions of language, our analyzes point to three predominant meanings, which mean the evangelical faith as: i) reaffirmation of identity; ii) exercise of otherness and respect to the other; and iii) political practice. Such meanings demonstrate that there are contradictions within the religious discursivity, which allows the beating between hate speeches and respect and empathy ones within the realm of the evangelical faith. Thus, looking for cracks in religious discourse that oppose fundamentalist and authoritarian discourses is an ethical duty of a religious leader who recognizes his social and discursive role as influential in taking positions and, therefore, in the lives of the members of their congregation.
RESUMO Este trabalho visa refletir sobre possíveis sentidos para a fé evangélica a partir de enunciados produzidos por três pastores evangélicos em suas redes sociais ao enunciarem sobre temas que se vinculam, direta ou indiretamente, a pautas políticas. Fundamentados no escopo teórico dos estudos em Linguística Aplicada e em concepções bakhtinianas de linguagem, nossas análises apontam três sentidos predominantes, os quais significam a fé evangélica como: i) reafirmação da identidade; ii) exercício da alteridade e respeito ao outro; e iii) prática política. Tais sentidos demonstram que há contradições no interior da discursividade religiosa, o que permite o batimento entre discursos de ódio e de respeito e empatia no âmbito da fé evangélica. Assim, buscar as fissuras no discurso religioso que se contraponham a discursos fundamentalistas e autoritários é um dever ético de um líder religioso que reconheça o seu papel social e discursivo como influente nas tomadas de posição e, por conseguinte, na vida dos membros de sua congregação.
The article analyzes the discourse of religious specialists on the pandemic. Throughout the essay we offer some provisional answers based on what happened in Argentina with the authorities of the ...Catholic Church and the associations of evangelical churches. We defend the hypothesis that the discourse of these religious actors about the pandemic had a low level of enchantment. We also affirm that it was based on a secularized view of society, health and politics, devoid of apocalyptic and conspiratorial perspectives. On the other hand, we affirm that two moments can be demarcated. In the first months, Christian religious institutions supported the government’s health measures. However, in the following months, critical voices emerged demanding more attention to religion in public policy.
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ow are the two most ubiquitous community-based organizations in poor Salvadoran neighborhoods—gangs and evangelical churches—connected? Most studies concur with the Brenneman/Wolseth thesis, ...which states that evangelical churches uniquely provide people with a pathway out of gangs. This article argues that such dynamics are a relatively small subset of a broad range of interactions between evangelicals and gangs. Data from the Religion, Global Poverty, and International Development study, collected in a mid-sized Salvadoran city from 2014 to 2018, show that: (1) family networks link evangelicals and gangs; (2) evangelicals and gangs share community governance; (3) gangs infiltrate congregations; and (4) evangelical ideas and networks penetrate gang life. These findings indicate that the widely accepted “haven” perspective of evangelicals in Latin America is insufficient to explain current empirical complexities. An “entanglement” framework is thus introduced, which may be relevant to evangelicals’ relationships to contemporary Latin American society more broadly.
This article analyzes the cross-border religious practices of the Aymara and Quechua people, Peruvian and Bolivian evangelicals who inhabit the Tarapacá region in Chile. For this purpose, the ...cross-border nature of evangelical communities is illustrated, evangelicals are defined as communities of communities, and three aspects are analyzed that allow evangelical churches to be understood as networks of mobility on the Chilean-Bolivian frontier: 1. The role of the family as a mediator of affiliations; 2. The importance of unattached identifications and 3. The heterogeneity of forms of participation in evangelical churches. For indigenous communities, geographical mobility is a community need and an ancestral heritage. Religious mobility implies interconnections between different religious groups, such as border and cross-border network strategies.
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